Early years settings in deprived areas of Bedfordshire are benefiting from a unique service offering training and support from a team of health professionals on good nutrition and oral health.
Knowing how to manage 'difficult' conversations with parents and carers is vital, and particularly so when a child has emerging SEN. Dr Kay Mathieson provides guidance on what to think about.
Disorders in physical co-ordination could be avoided by early years practitioners giving children simple exercises, as Mary Evans reports.
We should all be doing it more often and more carefully - especially in nurseries, where better handwashing could drastically reduce infections, says Ruth Thomson.
What approaches enable the inclusion and support of a child with high-level medical and physical needs in mainstream early years provision? Amanda King demonstrates with one successful case.
How does a family deal with having an autistic child? Hilary Hawkes offers reassuring advice.
Signing for the under-twos in a mixed inclusive centre is leading to advanced communication skills for all the children. Laura Marcus finds out about the benefits of a unique form of bilingualism.
When faced with behavioural challenges, practitioners should embrace the opportunity to learn more about children and develop effective strategies to support them, says Dr Kay Mathieson.
I am a nursery nurse and undergraduate working on a small research project, analysing boys' and girls' drawings. My investigations, undertaken in a nursery class, have revealed stark gender...
Children may remain emotionally affected long after an accident. Annette Rawstrone hears how.
