About ChildData

ChildData gives you access to the Library’s four databases covering policy, legislation, practice and research, from current thinking to background and historical work; together with information about national and international child care organisations; press coverage of issues affecting children and young people; and details of all the major child care conferences and events. Updated monthly/quarterly.

Catalogue - books, reports and journal articles (over 68,000 entries), all with abstracts, covering the literature on children and young people. Includes full text of the Highlight series, and all articles from Children & Society, NCB’s academic journal published jointly with Wiley.

Organisations – a unique database of over 3,000 organisations, national and international, fully keyworded, and with website and e-mail links.

Children in the News – abstracted summaries (more than 23,000 records) of newspaper coverage of children’s and young people’s issues since 1996. Includes law reports, editorials, news stories, features and opinion pieces.

Conferences & Events – over 7,000 entries detailing past and forthcoming national and international events in the child care field, with full contact details.

For more information you can download a copy of our promotional flyer [PDF: 106KB] or contact NCB's Library and Information Service on +44 (0)20 7843 6008 or e-mail library@ncb.org.uk.

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