NHS birth to five timeline

Posted on November 4, 2012 | 1 comment

Use this interactive guide to see the milestones in a child’s development from birth to five years old, including videos and advice to help parents along the way.
This is one of seven interactive timelines from NHS Choices, the UK’s reliable and comprehensive online health information service that attracts 100 million visits per year. This timeline was published in 2011 and is divided into 37 stages plus eight embedded videos and a printable text-only version.
Compared to some resources I’ve reviewed, this is a very small component, but it’s a joy to use with attractive photos and concise text. It’s ideal for quick reference or for use as a revision aid.
The timeline is published under a licence for both personal and non-commercial use.
Link: http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/birthtofive.aspx

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Seven e-learning resources from C4EO

Posted on October 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in CYP Services (C4EO) have produced seven interactive e-learning resources that present the main findings from research, tailored specifically to support your role in achieving outcomes for children and young people.
You can choose the group on the home page that most suits your role, whether you are a strategic leader, a senior manager, information specialist or a frontline practitioner. The information is tailored to each group, with reflection points to help you evaluate your own practice or to discuss issues with your teams and partner agencies.
Seven topics are covered in a common format:
1. Child Poverty
2. Disability
3. Early Years
4. Families, Parents and Carers
5. Safeguarding
6. Schools and Communities
7. Vulnerable Children
These are comprehensive packages comprising audio and video clips, quizzes, tests and interactive UK maps, all backed-up by substantial links to references. They are aimed at an audience who already possess skills and knowledge in the field, and it would be easy to spend a day or more on each topic if all the references are followed.
It took me some time to get the hang of navigating via the five sub-divided tabs, but when I got there, I welcomed the provision of transcripts of the audio and video clips, and the checklist of issues at the end is a helpful form of self-assessment.
No log-in is required, and they are released under an Open Government Licence so text and graphics may be freely reproduced for the purposes of any personal or educational use or private research.
http://www.c4eo.org.uk/elearning/

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Bringing Up Britain: Raising ‘digital kids’

Posted on September 17, 2012 | 1 comment

Mariella Frostrup returns with a new series of the radio programme that explores the complex realities of parenting in today’s Britain.
In the first programme, she is joined by a panel of experts and commentators to discuss raising ‘digital kids’. Can tablet games really help nurture or educate the under-fives? Should older primary school-age children engage with age-appropriate social networking sites as a form of ‘training’ – or should they be protected from the online world, however safely controlled, until much later?

This new 45-minute debate will be broadcast at 20:00 on Wed 19 Sep 2012 by BBC Radio 4.

12 previous episodes of Bringing Up Britain are still available on BBC iPlayer, including an episode from 2009 exploring step-parenting and ‘blended families’,  and one from 2011 entitled ‘Feral Kids and Feckless Parents‘, which asks how parents can keep control of their kids.
Bringing Up Britain has often been really good, with an excellent range of guests participating in the debates, so it is disappointing that the BBC restricts the programme’s potential audience by archiving previous episodes in the BBC iPlayer rather than releasing them in the more widespread mp3 podcast format.

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