Like many nursery school staff, Helen Strange, head of the nursery at Dulwich College Preparatory School in South London, believes that the new national curriculum for under-fives, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage framework (EYFS), has much to recommend it.
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The number of cocaine users being admitted to hospital has quadrupled in eight years, it has emerged as concerns grow that it has become the drug of choice for middle-class men.
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Dementia will strike down almost a million people in England within a generation and the cost of treating them will soar to £35 billion per year, a major study has disclosed.
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SCOTS are consuming twice as much alcohol as previously thought, a report suggests. The last survey, carried out in 2003, said that men were drinking an average of 17.2 units a week, while women consumed 6.5 units.
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Social services face questions about their failure to act after a seven-year-old girl who allegedly starved to death through neglect.
Khyra Ishaq was found with her five brothers and sisters living in squalid conditions in a house in Birmingham. Critically ill, she was taken to hospital but died hours later, while the rest of the children were treated for emaciation.
Angela Gordon, 33, and 29-year-old Junaid Abuhamza – believed to be her mother and step-father – appeared before magistrates on Monday, charged with neglect and were remanded in custody.
Birmingham Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood called for an investigation into the city’s social services after it emerged that Khyra and the other children had been taken out of school nearly three months ago amid claims of bullying.
“There are structural issues here within the local authority that need to be addressed,” he said.
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Detectives investigating allegations of abuse at a former Jersey children’s home said yesterday that bone and teeth fragments found in the cellar belonged to children, and added that their condition suggested murders had been committed.
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Alleged victims of abuse by nuns at a Scots children’s home have been barred from taking court action for damages by a House of Lords judgment yesterday.
Five Law Lords ruled that two of those seeking £50,000 in compensation had left it too long to claim for what they said they suffered at Nazareth House at Cardonald in Glasgow.
Two women and a man originally launched the claims, saying they were beaten and abused by nuns belonging to a religious order known as the Poor Sisters of Nazareth.
Two of the three took the case to the House of Lords after a judge at the Court of Session ruled the claims were time-barred.
But the Law Lords ruled that Judge Lord Drummond Young was correct to rule that it was too late to hold a fair trial – the abuse complained of dated back by up to more than 40 years.
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Scotland has too few specialist epilepsy nurses, according to a charity which campaigns for the 40,000 people affected by the condition.
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HE WAS the government adviser on alcohol abuse who couldn’t say when. Paul Yates is used to lecturing on the dangers of drunkenness, but yesterday the academic heard a sheriff cast doubt on his testimony and so found him guilty of twice drink-driving.
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Middle managers could go and savings of £50m found from its budget as Scotland’s largest local authority begins its financial planning against a backdrop of economic uncertainty.
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