February 2013 VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Currently the iHV website content is fully available, but from the beginning of March the professional resource sections will be put behind a firewall and only available to those who have joined the iHV as an Associate or Student Associate, Silver or Gold Friend.   We have deliberately left them [...]

4Children have been commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to conduct the quality assessment for the Help and Support for Separated Families (HSSF) Mark and any organisation working with divorced or separated families is eligible to apply.   The HSSF Mark is part of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Help and Support [...]

The British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health has recently published an “Early Movers” resource designed to support early years practitioners with their physical activity provision.   The resource can be accessed free (though the BHF welcome all donations!) via their website, via email or via the telephone on 0870 600 6566. [...]

Following on from the success of providers offering free early education for three and four year olds, the Government is rolling out an entitlement of 15 hours per week for lower income two year olds in England.   Build up has already started, towards providing places for an estimated 130,000 children from September 2013 (about [...]

On 15 December, the head of the Government’s Troubled Families programme, Louise Casey, published a report which endorsed family intervention as the most effective way to turn problem families around and help them get on in life.    Working with Troubled Families: a guide to evidence and good practice outlines key ways in which family intervention is [...]

Foundation years The foundation years team are asking for your views on the newsletter so that we can continue to improve our content. The short survey should take no more than five minutes to complete.   NHL NHL have a new workshop which takes attendees through the ‘how to’ of effective outcomes measurement tool development [...]