RTG News

Early years sector news stories:

• 03Aug2010
  Anita Kerwin-Nye discusses the National Year

  Anita Kerwin-Nye, Director of the Communication Trust, discusses the upcoming 2011 National Year to highlight the importance of speech, language and communication.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 03Aug2010
  Liz Attenborough to leave the National Literacy Trust

  The National Literacy Trust announces that Liz Attenborough will be leaving her role as Manager of Talk To Your Baby at the end of October, following this year’s Talk To Your Baby conference.

  Posted by Farah Pasha

• 03Aug2010
  Your baby is amazing - new resource

  TTYB has created a new resource to help parents understand the importance of early communication in healthy brain development, how early communication manifests itself and the importance of babbling.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 29Jul2010
  Early motherly affection leads to more stress resistant adults

  The BBC reports on a recently published study, which shows that high levels of motherly affection are likely to facilitate secure attachment and bonding.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 29Jul2010
  The Baby Room Project

  Canterbury Christ Church University has spent the last year investigating what goes on in baby rooms in nurseries.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 28Jul2010
  Department for Education announces independent commission into early intervention

  Plans for an independent commission into early intervention, which aims to ensure that children at greatest risk of multiple disadvantage get the best start in life, has been announced by the Department for Education (DfE).

  Posted by Anna Lindsay

• 28Jul2010
  New book: Early Childhood Matters

  Evidence from the Effective Pre-school and Primary Education project has been published in a book, edited by Kathy Sylva et al (2010) Routledge.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 28Jul2010
  “Literacy in a digital age” debate raises vital issues

  On Tuesday this week a New Statesman and Starbucks Coffee House debate, in association with the National Literacy Trust, took place at Starbucks in Oxford Street.

  Posted by Anna Lindsay

• 26Jul2010
  10 reasons why play is important

  Play is integral to a child's development. This article brings together TTYB's 10 reasons why play is important.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor

• 21Jul2010
  The Wellbeing Project

  In an article in Nursery World Mary Dickins, early years consultant, discusses the concept of wellbeing.

  Posted by Shawna Spoor