C4EO has published its first three scoping studies for its first theme, Early Years.
What is an Effective Children’s Centre?
A study to explore the perceptions of parents, practitioners and managers.
This publication celebrates the delivery achievement to date, and sets out the position of the Sure Start Children's Centres programme as at September 2008.
The DCSF has published an update to the first improvement support protocol published in July, 2007.
Blue Peter puts food back on the menu with its biggest-ever Appeal: Mission Nutrition
Dates for the CCLN regional events during November and December have now been released.
Emap Conferences together with LGC are hosting this event on 13th November 2008 to help build a stronger early years workforce and improve outcomes for every child.
This is the first newsletter from the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO). It aims to keep you updated with the Centre's latest activities and will be published on a bi-monthly basis.
A toolkit that can be used by practitioners planning sessions or looking to draw on the experiences of others to help build on existing work with dads.
The Tackling Obesity with HENRY e-learning course has now been released.
As part of SCIE’s work on children and families, they have just published this new free e-learning product on the Children of Prisoners.
Together for Children have recently updated their on line Health Support Products, 'Improving health and local authority joint working'.
The Academy has designed a programme of free training and support that will reach over 6000 parenting practitioners in England over the next two years.
A one day conference to explore the next steps for children’s centres and extended schools, combining national policy and leading practice to improve outcomes for children, young people, families and communities.
The National Literacy Trust has launched Early Reading Connects, a new project designed to support early years practitioners in encouraging a love of stories and reading among the children in their care and their families.
Is a suite of free services designed to serve everyone in a parenting role – mothers, fathers, carers and other adults with parental responsibility – by ensuring access to expert advice through existing helplines and services.
The Government is launching a public consultation on proposals to give Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCCs) a specific statutory legal basis, as part of the forthcoming Education and Skills Bill.
The latest issue of the DCSF Early Years Magazine is now online!
The Fatherhood Institute is inviting Children’s Centres and other children’s services across the UK to take part in the UK version of a groundbreaking American ante-natal peer support programme for dads-to-be.
Please find attached a letter that has been sent out to all 3,000 Sure Start Children's Centre Leaders today from Secretary of State Rt Hon Ed Balls MP and Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP.
The Government’s new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework comes into force today.
A conference run by the National Literacy Trust for Early Years practitioners to consider early communication issues from a young child's perspective, with the help of specialist practitioners and academics.
This Autumn North East Lincolnshire Council is offering Local Authorities from across the country the chance to attend a conference on the innovative new methods we have in place to improve our Children’s Centres.
ContinYou are looking for examples of exciting, imaginative, innovative and enjoyable activities - the kind that really can make learning come alive, and that make a difference.
DCSF launch their introduction to the EYFS leaflet to provide information for Parents and Carers.
The results of the 2007 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey have been published by DCSF.
DCSF are writing about plans for moving towards full national coverage of children’s centres and the further development of performance management arrangements.
Neil Stewart Associates are running their 6th annual Sure Start conference on the 30th September 2008
The Ministry of Justice and National Offender Management Service are hosting an event on joining up Criminal Justice with services for children and families.
The latest issue of the DCSF Early Years Magazine is now online
The independent evaluation of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Programme has been published.
Thursday 25th September 2008 - Central London
Campaign for Learning are running a national conference on Families, Learning and Community Cohesion which will be of interest to Children's Centre Leaders.
Further clarification was requested on the wording in the Planning Guidance. Please see the attached document further information and DCSF clarification.
The Fatherhood Institute launches a campaign on Monday 30 June to ensure the DAD cards are available in every Children’s Centre in the country.
The Parent's Guide to Money, produced by the Financial Services Authority will be distributed free throughout England early this autumn via midwives.
Child Safety Week is supported by the Department for Children, schools and Families and is the Child Accident Prevention Trust’s flagship community education campaign
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have published a tool to support health and social care workers in raising the issue of smoking cessation with pregnant women who access their service.
New briefing paper produced by DCSF for early years leads and commissioners to encourage funding of parental engagement programmes.
Housing charity Shelter has launched a free advice and information for staff of Children’s Centres to best support families who are experiencing housing problems.
The application round for NPQICL has been extended until 12pm on 16 May 2008