The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has published a report evaluating the impact of training health visitors in the use of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), a tool to help with routine checks to promote...
Campaigners are warning that financial pressures on nurseries are limiting their ability to invest in early intervention and support for children. Sector body National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said new...
Childminding could disappear within the next decade without urgent government intervention, a charity has warned.
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The number of childminders has plummeted by more than 25 per cent over the last five years, according to latest Ofsted registration figures. Ofsted figures show there was a two per cent fall in childminder numbers...
The government should publish a strategy for early years family support services amid spending cutbacks and claims that parents are struggling to access decent provision. The Family and Childcare Trust wants...
Information on the health of children aged nought to five years, including Early Years Profiles and Breastfeeding Profiles.
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The cost of childcare for young children has risen more than four times faster than wages since 2008, according to new analysis published by the TUC today (Friday). The analysis reveals that in England the average wages...
Birmingham City Council is to reduce the number of children’s centres it runs by 37 as part of a major reorganisation of early years services. The local authority first announced plans to make changes to early...
The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) has published a literature review looking at children’s use of the internet, focussing on trends and emerging issues, and the online risk of harm to children and...
Local authorities will be expected to work together in ‘Regional Improvement Alliances’ under new plans announced by the government. Children’s minister Robert Goodwill announced that up to £20 million would be spent on...
There can be few people in social work better prepared than Professor Alexis Jay to lead the mammoth Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which started evidence hearings this week. Recounting the early days...
Ethical dilemmas dominate in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act How does a judge in the Family Division of the High Court protect the interests of a young person when the secular world of medical expertise conflicts with...
We believe that the roots of [the converging crises of our times] lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves…We will reassert the role of storytelling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories...
