Focus on Electronic Resources for Early Years and Child Care

Childlink and Nursery World

Library+ subscribes to a couple of databases which hold lots of useful information for Early Years and Child Care students particularly but may also be useful for Health and Social Care students.
These resources are accessible from our Electronic Resources page under the Library+ section of Moodle.  Both can be used inside and outside College. If prompted, enter your network login name and password.

Childlink

This focuses on legislation, policies and practices regarding children and young people. There are links to new government legislation (e.g. Children and Social Work Bill), research, papers ( e.g. Bounce back from bullying), news (e.g "Schools must do more on mental health") and statistics (e.g. youth custody data). There are also links to trustworthy videos (e.g. How to put your child to sleep properly or What can we do about child abuse?  - see below for the NSPCC video).

There is also a range of practice guides on issues such as Nursery Food and Common Childhood Illnesses. Have a look and see what you can find!

You can access Childlink on your tablet if you have one and there is a Childlink app for your mobile if this is how you wish to access it.

Nursery World

We pay a lot of money to give you online access to back issues of Nursery World so do please use it. Nursery World is very practical and relevant to people working with young children (I've just found an article on dressing up, for example) with ideas that you can use in your work placement as well as use in your assignments. There is health advice, information about special needs, equality and diversity and ideas for play, to name a few.

You can search for what you are interested in using the search box in the top right hand corner or browse through past issues one by one.

Nursery World - available to view in College

If you want any help using these, please come and ask in Library+. We can also come to your lesson and give you a quick demo or training session - tutors just need to arrange this with us.