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Children Can Jump with Sounds and Interactive Lights with The 4.5ft Interactive Lights Junior Trampoline and Enclosure

Feel like a star on the 4.5ft Interactive Lights Junior Trampoline and Enclosure from Plum Play. The brand-new trampoline has interactive LED lights around the top rim that changes into six colours. The multi-coloured lights are activated through a child’s favourite songs....

• Boys less likely to talk to Childline about mental health issues than girls
• National data in 2020 shows more than 120 boys died by suicide
• Childline launches ‘We All Feel It’ campaign to help boys who are struggling to ask for help with their mental health

Childline has found boys are five times less likely to talk with the service’s trained...

From 21 February, childcare providers do not have to notify Ofsted of any COVID-19 cases at their setting, whether in staff or children.

From: Ofsted and Department for Education

Published 21 February 2022

The Department for Education has decided that from today (21 February 2022), if you are a childcare provider, you are no longer required to notify Ofsted, or the...

A blog written by Free your Mind ambassador – Joss Simmons

For me growing up around domestic violence was life changing it was scary and tearful. I feel as though it is the most tainted way to see love and to learn love.

Seeming as it is the person doing the damage is the exact same person who claims they are doing it out of love. Being the child in the middle of it all,...

Dear Zoo... Classic children’s story comes to life at ZSL London Zoo this Easter The Dear Zoo Experience: Saturday 2 - Monday 18 April 2022

ZSL London Zoo is bringing children's classic Dear Zoo to life this Easter, through a series of roarsome activities celebrating the 40th anniversary of the famous book.

Author Rod Campbell’s much-loved tale of a child who writes to the zoo to ask...

Palladium Hotel Group launches the season on 18th March with the opening of Palladium Hotel Costa del Sol

• Situated in Benalmádena (Málaga), the 336-room beachfront hotel is ideally located for exploring the destination’s culture, leisure, and sports offerings
• Both hotel guests and external clients will be able to enjoy the property’s gastronomy in restaurants Chang Thai and
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NDNA acknowledges the challenges for Covid-born babies National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has released a new webinar to give practitioners strategies to support babies and young children, whose wellbeing and development have been stunted by Covid-19.

Children born during the pandemic – just under 290,000 were born across the whole of the UK between March and July 2020 - have had their...

The best areas in England to raise a child – revealed

• Wolverhampton takes first spot, with the best average salary of the top 10
• Darlington comes in second and North Lincolnshire is third
• Hull is fifth, but has the lowest monthly costs of the top 10

According to a new study, Wolverhampton is the best place in England to raise a child.

The...

• New analysis shows around 173,000 childcare workers across the UK would benefit from raising the minimum wage to £10 an hour
• Women, young people, and workers in the south east and south west of England would gain the most
• TUC calls for urgent cash boost to the childcare sector, and an immediate increase in the minimum wage to at least £10 an hour

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We need adoptive families for children who wait the longest. Are you considering adoption but not sure where to start? Families for Children is holding an information session to give you the opportunity to find out more.

Whether you are in a relationship, single, LGBTQ+ or have had children of your own we would love to speak to you! So come along and talk to our friendly team at this...