Wednesday's blog post talked about the role of children's trusts in coordinating services, so perhaps it's timely that this week...
Family Support Workers
Today's post is aimed at our students on the Family Support Workers foundation degree course. I spoke with some of you in the library on...
Are We There Yet?
Today's post title is nothing to do with children in the back seat of a car... In 2003 the Victoria Climbie Inquiry delivered its final...
Hot and Cold
This past week, I had the opportunity of doing workshops in Los Angeles and Anaheim, California as well as Atlantic City, New Jersey. When I...
Children's Survey / Gifted Children
Ofsted has just published its annual Tellus3 survey which asks 10-15 year olds in England a range of questions covering the five Every Child...
New Child Poverty Research
Child poverty is one of those topics that seems to be perenially in the news, but even those who follow it closely may be surprised to learn...
Every Child Matters article
Today's post is simply to point you towards an article which appeared in yesterday's Guardian, which some of you may find interestin...
Children's Emotional Development and Wellbeing
The Office for National Statistics has just released a lengthy new report entitled Three Years On , which takes a detailed look at the devel...
Families & Relationships
The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) is a department of the University of Edinburgh. Research carried out by the Ce...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Children
Today's post may be the longest this blog has ever seen; last months issue of OnTheWeb (see this previous post for details of this exce...
The Millennium Cohort Study
The Millennium Cohort Study is a huge ongoing project which is examining the social conditions which today's children will encounter as...
ICT in Secondary Schools
Today's post is for our ICT bods. Last month Becta produced a series of reports on the subject of Web 2.0 within secondary school (for ...
Quality Child Care
In the last weeks we have been talking about quality child care in my Introduction to Teaching course. Research tells us that quality chil...
Children & Young Person's Bill
This week the Children & Young Person's Bill received another reading in the House of Commons, which means it is one step closer to ...
Poverty & The Media
Occasionally students make enquiries about how the media reports on early years or social issues, so if you're doing research in that ar...
Sage Journals - Special Offer
This is just a short post to inform all readers that if you log onto Athens and choose the Sage Journals site, you will be able to access al...
We're in this Together!
I did a math workshop in Nashville this week and it was wonderful. What a great group of teachers and caregivers! It is always such a treat ...