Welcome to 'Child Care Magazine'

Expert practical and professional guidance for all childminders, nannies and childcarers

The one resource that will keep you up-to-date with all your practical and professional needs

Child Care is a monthly magazine which provides vital information, special features and practical activity ideas for home-based childminders, nannies and other professional childcarers.

It is so much more than just a magazine. Child Care provides you with both a magazine and practical activities pull-out resource in one easy-to-read and extremely relevant publication.

Child Care is available through subscription or from selected newsagents and bookstands. Subscribe online and receive a FREE poster pack worth £8.99!

Regular Features

The Magazine

The magazine keeps you in touch with all the latest developments taking place in childcare. It will explain and interpret new regulations, help you prepare for Ofsted inspections, and provide you with vital information on the EYFS, the Early Years Framework or the Foundation Phase.

It includes:

  • Professional News
    Keep up-to-date with the important stories in Child Care from across the UK.
  • Regular Features
    In-depth reports on different aspects of childcare, including health, behaviour, child development and working with parents.
  • Topical Reports
    In-depth reports looking at different aspects of childcare.
  • Equipment Round-up
    Each issue we feature a range of resources independently reviewed by childcarers.
  • The editor meets...
    Every month Child Care interviews a different childcare professional and finds out what fuels their passion.

The practical pull-out resource

This practical 16-page resource is ready punched for you to pull out and use again. Each month we feature a range of activities and ideas for children of mixed ages, with clear links to the Early Years Foundation Stage.

 

It covers topics on:

  • Quick 'n' Easy: A well-tried, rewarding activity requiring little advanced planning
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development
  • Communication, Language and Literature
  • Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
  • Knowledge and Understanding of the World
  • Physical Development
  • Creative Development
  • Recipe Ideas
  • Natural World leaving activities