While the rise in the number of adults being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes hit the headlines again recently, what is less reported is the sharp rise in recent years of the number of under-fives...
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.
An early years project aiming to promote inclusion through the creative arts challenged everyone's thinking. Louise Jackson explains how.
Best practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage will depend on understanding how all the aspects of child's development link together. Maria Robinson sets out a way to approach them.
CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT (5th edition). By Pamela Minett. (Hodder Arnold, 15.99, ISBN: 0340889152, tel: 020 7873 6000) Some food for thought in your professional career
Part one of our new 12-part collectible series on child development looks at meeting the emotional and learning needs of the unique child. By Julia Manning-Morton
Children speaking different languages, or very little at all, learn to communicate happily at a nursery visited by Annette Rawstrone.
What is empathy, how does it develop in the early years, and what can practitioners and parents do to support it? Ruth Thomson explains
The research and thinking about infant development available to early years practitioners is highlighted by Jools Page and Cathy Nutbrown from the University of Sheffield's School of Education.
One children's centre delights in providing challenge for a child with Down Syndrome.
