Here we are poised to begin another new year. There is always much talk about resolutions and what we want to change about ourselves for th...
Review of 2008
As this is the period when reviews of the year are published, today's post gathers together some of the most significant childhood and e...
Children's Plan / Play Strategy
Two documents released last week by the DCSF: It is 12 months since the publication of the Children's Plan (see this previous post for ...
The Child Care Transition
Readers with an interest in early years provision in other countries should be interested in a new report from UNICEF . Published yesterday,...
Monitoring Poverty & Social Exclusion
This week has seen the 10th anniversary of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's annual Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report. The ...
Wider Workforce Week
Many of our readers may be interested to learn that this week is Wider Workforce Week on Teachers TV. All week the service (Freeview Channel...
Rose Review - Interim Report
Since January of this year, Sir Jim Rose has been carrying out an independent review of primary education in the UK, on the instructions of ...
Faith Schools & Community Cohesion
The issue of faith schools is in the news again, following the release of a new report from the Runnymede Trust . This new research is likel...
Someday...
I am in the middle of interviewing students from my Introduction to Teaching courses at the university. I am so excited about the number of ...
Homes Fit for Families
Something for our Family Support Workers today; a few months ago the Family & Parenting Institute published Homes Fit for Families: An ...
More Bits 'n' Bobs
Details of more useful items which have been published in the last week: The latest report from Every Child A Reader suggests that the prog...
DCSF reports
There is always plenty of new research and reports being published in the Childhood and Early Years sectors, but lately there seems to have ...
Children's Services / Bullying
Here's a round up of several items of interest from recent weeks, which fall into two broad areas: children's services and bullying....