Settings face cuts after council overspend
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Early years Funding
  • Apr 1, 2019
Provider finances: evidence from early years providers
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Early years Finances
  • Mar 28, 2019
Cheltenham early years centre wins Shine a Light Award
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Early years Awards
  • Mar 27, 2019
Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2018
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Ofsted inspections Nurseries Early years
  • Mar 26, 2019
Early years and childcare statistics
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  • Mar 26, 2019
Childcare and early years providers survey: 2018
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Childcare Nurseries Early years Survey
  • Mar 22, 2019
The science of early learning
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Brexit: ‘Give nursery workers priority for visas’
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Early years Scotland Free childcare
  • Mar 22, 2019
Getting it right from the start
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EYFS Early years Outcomes
  • Mar 21, 2019
Bristol nursery locks toys away for a month
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Early years Nurseries Childcare Play
  • Mar 21, 2019
Northamptonshire asks DfE for more time for funding decision
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Early years Funding
  • Mar 20, 2019
Parents rate early education highly, survey shows
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Early years Parents
  • Mar 20, 2019
Ban screen time for under-twos, expert says
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Screen-use Early years
  • Mar 20, 2019
Early years: ‘Am I going to be hugged or ignored?’
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Early years Parental engagement
  • Mar 18, 2019
Northamptonshire County Council proposes cuts to early years
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Early years Funding
  • Mar 18, 2019
Too often early years is seen through the prism of older phases
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Early years
  • Mar 14, 2019
Spring Statement: the 5 key concerns
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Early years Funding Period poverty Sanitary protection Secondary Knife crime Maintained nursery schools
  • Mar 13, 2019
Alliance launches early years survey on impact of wage rises
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Early years Survey
  • Mar 12, 2019
Early years policy should tackle the social mobility divide
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Health visitors to be trained to spot communication problems earlier
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  • Mar 1, 2019
Parents lose millions of pounds in the maze of childcare funding
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  • Mar 1, 2019
Children and Families Minister announces new early years funding
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Early years Funding
  • Feb 28, 2019
Early years providers cost study: 2018
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Early years Funding
  • Feb 28, 2019
Ceeda roundtable pools ideas to tackle early years recruitment crisis
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Ceeda Early years Recruitment Workforce
  • Feb 28, 2019
New training for health visitors to boost early language skills
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Language Early years
  • Feb 28, 2019
Children 'failed in first 1,000 days', says MPs
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Inequality Early years
  • Feb 26, 2019
'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs
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Inequality Early years
  • Feb 26, 2019
Health inequalities we tolerate now can affect children for life | Paul Williams
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Inequality Early years
  • Feb 26, 2019
Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding
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Funding Early years Nurseries Childminders Childcare
  • Feb 22, 2019
Sector slams 'tired' government response on early years funding
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  • Feb 18, 2019
Andrea Leadsom's group seeks to plug gaps for 0-2s
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Early years
  • Feb 18, 2019
Study of early education and development (SEED)
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SEED Early years
  • Feb 15, 2019
Parenting can trump background
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Early years Outcomes Attainment gap
  • Feb 14, 2019
Initiative aims to tackle stress in early years workforce
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Early years Workload
  • Feb 13, 2019
Alliance joins DfE and Ofsted to tackle early years workload
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Early years Workload
  • Feb 13, 2019
Voice welcomes project to tackle early years workload and urges members to take part
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Early years Workload
  • Feb 12, 2019
Two-thirds of Scottish children experience ‘early life adversity’
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Adversity Early years Scotland
  • Feb 4, 2019
Petition calling for funding to increase tops 6,000 signatures
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Early years Funding
  • Jan 31, 2019
No serving teachers on DfE’s new education apps advisory panel
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Anger as Welsh language nurseries told they will have to teach some English to children
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  • Jan 29, 2019
More than 5 per cent of young children have their own smartphone
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Mobile phones Early years Technology Screen-use
  • Jan 29, 2019
Experts recruited to advise DfE on early years apps
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Take early education outdoors – even in winter
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Screen time 'may harm toddlers'
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Screen-use Development Early years
  • Jan 28, 2019
Early Childhood Development programme
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Early years Development Funding Research
  • Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: Tackle gender inequality in education - starting in nurseries
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Gender inequality Early years Scotland
  • Jan 25, 2019
The impact of recent government policies on early years provision
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  • Jan 25, 2019
New guiding principles for practitioners working with EAL learners in the Early Years Foundation Stage
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Early years EAL Language
  • Jan 23, 2019
Learning through play: what are the benefits?
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Early years
  • Jan 23, 2019
Reporter's take: How 'thoughtless' Ofsted is upsetting early years
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Ofsted framework Inspections Early years
  • Jan 22, 2019
Early years innovation receives Harvard University boost
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Early years Research Isolation Stress Harvard
  • Jan 21, 2019
Ceeda Data: About Early Years 4 - Gaps in the market
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Early years Skills gaps Workforce Soft skills Recruitment Retention Upskilling
  • Jan 21, 2019
Why it's time to better pay and better train our Early Years workforce
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Early years Workforce Pay Unqualified teachers Attainment
  • Jan 17, 2019
How will Ofsted evaluate how much a four-year-old knows?
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Childcare workers face increasing financial pressures and have low qualification levels
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  • Jan 17, 2019
EPI on childcare workers
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  • Jan 17, 2019
The early years workforce in England
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Strategy and investment needed for early years workforce
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Early years staff face financial pressure as wages drop
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Qualifications and pay falling in early years sector
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  • Jan 16, 2019
Nurseries urged to interact with older people to boost children's life chances
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  • Jan 8, 2019
Early years and childcare statistics
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  • Dec 20, 2018
Childcare and early years survey of parents: 2018
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Childcare Early years Parents Survey
  • Dec 20, 2018
Surveys on childcare and early years in England
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Childcare Survey Early years
  • Dec 20, 2018
Statistics: childcare and early years
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Childcare Early years Statistical data
  • Dec 20, 2018
Statistics: childcare and early years
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Childcare Early years
  • Dec 18, 2018
Early years initial teacher training: 2019 to 2020 funding guidance
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ITT Teacher training Early years
  • Dec 18, 2018
Scotland: Children attending early learning and childcare sessions to be given free meal
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Scotland Free meals Childcare Early years
  • Dec 18, 2018
Mental health in English preschool children
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Mental health Early years Wellbeing
  • Dec 7, 2018
Early years and childcare statistics
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Early years Childcare Ofsted
  • Dec 5, 2018
Nurseries stifle children by playing it safe, warns Ofsted
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Ofsted Early years Nurseries Childcare Health Safety Playground
  • Dec 4, 2018
Delay continues over Level 3 standard while new apprenticeship group is set up
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Apprenticeship training Apprenticeship standards Early years Childcare
  • Dec 4, 2018
Why do we treat early years teachers as second class?
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  • Dec 3, 2018
UKEdMag: Continuous provision beyond early years
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  • Dec 1, 2018
Early years teacher trainees drop by a third
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Why do we treat early years teachers as second class?
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Numbers training to become early years teachers plummet
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Over 12,000 children already signed up for National Early Years Music Week
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Music Early years
  • Nov 29, 2018
Wales launches new food and nutrition guidance for early years settings
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Wales Nutrition Early years Nurseries Childcare Health
  • Nov 29, 2018
Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4
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Ofsted IDSR Early years
  • Nov 27, 2018
Early years difficulties may predict academic achievement across primary
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Early years Pupil performance Academic achievement Pupil outcomes
  • Nov 23, 2018
Supporting early-childhood teachers with integrating a humanoid robot to enhance learning
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Teachers Early years AI Artificial intelligence Robots
  • Nov 23, 2018
One toddler in 18 suffers a mental health disorder
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Mental health Early years Behaviour
  • Nov 23, 2018
Early years funding benchmarking tool
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Early years Funding Benchmarks
  • Nov 22, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund
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Funding Early years Language Literacy Numeracy
  • Nov 15, 2018
Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4
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  • Nov 14, 2018
DfE funds Scouts to launch early years provision
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Scouts DfE Funding Early years Disadvantaged
  • Nov 14, 2018
Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers
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  • Nov 12, 2018
£600m underspend as parents shun Tax-Free Childcare
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  • Nov 12, 2018
Changes to Early Learning Goals 'criminal' says early years expert
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Early years Nurseries ELGs Progress
  • Nov 9, 2018
Early years training organisation NEyTCO closes
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Early years Training provider Closures
  • Nov 6, 2018
Labour warns of £600m fall in tax-free childcare
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Tax-free childcare Early years Funding
  • Nov 6, 2018
MPs launch inquiry into early years funding
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  • Nov 5, 2018
Childminders and childcare providers: Ofsted inspections of those providers on the Early Years Register
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  • Oct 30, 2018
Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers
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  • Oct 29, 2018
Statistics: early years foundation stage profile
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  • Oct 18, 2018
Children and Families Minister's NAHT early years speech
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Nadhim Zahawi Attainment gap Early years
  • Oct 5, 2018
Check early years qualifications
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  • Oct 5, 2018
One university ditches EYT, while another commits to it
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  • Oct 1, 2018
Damian Hinds: Children’s literacy and narrowing the early years gap should be a national mission
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Literacy Early years Development Communication
  • Sep 30, 2018
30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated
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  • Sep 27, 2018
Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2018
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Early years Statistical data Provision
  • Sep 26, 2018
Voice comments on Labour’s childcare plans
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  • Sep 26, 2018
NEU comment on Jeremy Corbyn speech to Labour Party conference
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Unions Free childcare Politics Early years
  • Sep 26, 2018
Response to Labour’s commitment to invest in childcare
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  • Sep 26, 2018
Councils plan £900m of cuts including children's services and early years
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Funding Cuts Early years
  • Sep 20, 2018
Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Government early years spending rises for first time in three years
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  • Sep 18, 2018
Council to close 46 children's centres and encourage community-run services
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Early years
  • Sep 18, 2018
Early years initial teacher training (ITT) providers
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  • Sep 17, 2018
Four in 10 providers see fall in profits due to 30 hours childcare initiative
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Free childcare 30-hour childcare Early years
  • Sep 12, 2018
Leader comment: What toddlers ‘talking’ like apes says about humans
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Speech Early years
  • Sep 12, 2018
Scotland: Children aren’t little monkeys, they’re really just tiny apes
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Communication Language Early years
  • Sep 12, 2018
Quality early years provision 'leads to fewer emotional difficulties'
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Early years Childcare Nurseries SEED Development
  • Sep 10, 2018
Children should not start school until they are six or seven, say LibDems
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Early years Liberal Democrats
  • Sep 8, 2018
Ireland: Crèche manager wins unfair dismissal claim
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Staff dismissal Early years
  • Sep 7, 2018
Nuffield Early Language Intervention wins Teach Early Years Award
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Awards Early years
  • Sep 4, 2018
Characteristics of Effective Learning will remain statutory, DfE confirms
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Early years Childcare
  • Aug 31, 2018
Ofsted calls for early years experts
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Early years Pedagogy
  • Aug 30, 2018
The three-year-old with an IQ of 171
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Early years Intelligence IQ
  • Aug 16, 2018
Pre-school apps 'ignore how children learn'
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Technology Communication Reading Early years
  • Aug 10, 2018
Educational apps ‘do little to help children develop’
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Technology Early years
  • Aug 10, 2018
Shortage of early years teachers risks 325,000 children falling behind, warns charity
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Teacher shortages Early years Nurseries Childcare Graduate teachers
  • Aug 9, 2018
Teacher gaps in early years ‘risk child’s futures’
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  • Aug 9, 2018
Shortage of 11,000 qualified nursery teachers means children are 'starting behind'
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  • Aug 9, 2018
England faces shortage of 11,000 nursery teachers
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  • Aug 9, 2018
"Children who start behind, stay behind" - Britain short of 11,000 qualified nursery workers shocking report reveals
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  • Aug 9, 2018
The girl of 3 with an IQ bigger than Einstein’s
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IQ Intelligence Early years
  • Aug 9, 2018
Early years teacher gaps 'risk children's futures'
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Teacher shortages Early years Nurseries Childcare Graduate teachers
  • Aug 9, 2018
Nursery schools facing 11,000 shortage of qualified teachers, figures reveal
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  • Aug 9, 2018
Graduate teacher shortage imperils nursery learning, warns charity
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  • Aug 9, 2018
Over 300,000 children are being taught by unqualified nursery staff, charity warns
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  • Aug 9, 2018
Lack of graduates harming nurseries, warns charity
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Teacher shortages Graduate teachers Early years Nurseries Childcare
  • Aug 9, 2018
Regional differences in attainment in the early years
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Early years Attainment
  • Aug 8, 2018
International early learning and child wellbeing
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Early years Wellbeing IELS
  • Aug 8, 2018
Teaching, pedagogy and practice in early years childcare: An evidence review
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Early years Childcare Evidence Disadvantaged
  • Aug 8, 2018
Early years education: What does high-quality provision look like?
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  • Aug 8, 2018
How early childhood education and care can help to tackle the impact of childhood disadvantage
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  • Aug 8, 2018
Researchers criticise lack of evidence for government early years policy
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  • Aug 8, 2018
Early years education: what does high-quality provision look like?
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Early years Childcare Outcomes
  • Aug 8, 2018
Action, not words, will show how serious the government is to tackling the early years gap | Luciana Berger & Lucy Powell
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Early years Social mobility Disadvantaged School readiness Literacy Funding Childcare
  • Aug 7, 2018
An analysis of the early years workforce and its impact on children’s outcomes
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Early years Outcomes Research
  • Aug 6, 2018
Early Years Careers Pathway and map published
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Childcare Early years Career development
  • Aug 6, 2018
Response to Damian Hind's speech on social mobility
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Social mobility Early years Disadvantaged
  • Jul 31, 2018
Family and Childcare Trust joins Coram
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Charities Early years
  • Jul 25, 2018
Closing the gap in access to free ‘universal’ early education: What affects participation among low-income families?
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Access Funding Early years Attainment gap National pupil database
  • Jul 17, 2018
As nurseries ban costumes, we must let our children be superheroes — so they can learn to beat baddies
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Nurseries Early years Play
  • Jul 4, 2018
Training needs of early years sector examined by new ETF report
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Early years Teacher training Technical qualifications Vocational
  • Jun 28, 2018
Review of the Early Learning Goals in England
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Early years
  • Jun 22, 2018
A posthumanist, materialist perspective on artmaking processes may shed a new light on the practices of social inclusion and exclusion in early years settings
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Social inclusion Exclusion Early years Nurseries Childcare
  • Jun 21, 2018
Number games make maths fun for preschool children
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Maths Skills Nurseries Early years
  • Jun 21, 2018
Meet the kids learning to fix punctures
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Early years Life skills
  • Jun 20, 2018
Scotland: Pre-schoolers eat a million sweets a week
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Early years Health Nutrition Obesity Wellness
  • Jun 20, 2018
Writing and iPads in the early years classroom
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Early years Technology Writing Literacy
  • Jun 19, 2018
Impact on children of early years education examined
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Early years Outcomes Social justice
  • Jun 12, 2018
Fears that early years T-level will not give licence to practice
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Early years T-levels Work placements
  • Jun 11, 2018
Early Learning Goals group ‘unrepresentative’
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Nurseries Early years Teachers EYFS
  • Jun 11, 2018
Scotland: Nurseries ‘will need more money to expand hours’
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Funding Early years Free childcare Nurseries Scotland
  • Jun 11, 2018
Impact on children of early years education examined
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Early years Nurseries Childcare Social justice Outcomes
  • Jun 8, 2018
Teachers spend more than million hours a year helping children use toilets, study says
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Teaching Toilet training Early years
  • May 30, 2018
NAHT rejects Bold Beginnings approach to early years learning
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Bold Beginnings Reception Primary Early years
  • May 29, 2018
Early years providers 'face £500m childcare funding shortfall'
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Early years Childcare Funding 30-hour childcare
  • May 25, 2018
Funded places leaving providers out of pocket by millions
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  • May 25, 2018
Scouts to expand to further 500 deprived areas and trial early years provision
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Scouts Disadvantaged Early years
  • May 21, 2018
Enhancing early years evidence
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Evidence Early years Ed tech
  • May 18, 2018
Life chances inquiry launched
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Life chances Early years Research Literacy Numeracy Disadvantaged pupils
  • May 4, 2018
MPs to investigate impact of early years education on life chances
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Early years Education Committee
  • May 4, 2018
Early years provider non-compliance: action by Ofsted
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Ofsted Early years Childcare Regulation Nurseries Childminders
  • May 2, 2018
Free Play-Doh activities for EYFS children
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  • May 2, 2018
More male role models are needed in early years, say heads
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Early years Gender gap Teachers
  • May 2, 2018
Lack of male nursery teachers deprives kids of role models, head teachers warn ministers
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Gender gap Teachers Early years
  • May 2, 2018
Schools get behind call for more men in early years
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Gender gap Early years
  • May 2, 2018
Heads back call for more male early-years teachers
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Early years Teachers Gender gap
  • May 2, 2018
£5m fund to support early years home learning
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Funding Early years Parents Language Literacy
  • Apr 30, 2018
Better. Bolder. Brighter – a new look for Nursery World
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Early years
  • Apr 30, 2018
New website resources to support children's communication
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Early years Communication Nurseries Childcare
  • Apr 25, 2018
Survey looks at the impact of work on early years practitioners' mental health
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Survey Early years Mental health
  • Apr 23, 2018
Urgent action needed to prevent loss of Early Years Teachers
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  • Apr 20, 2018
Decline in uptake of early years teacher training due to poor pay, study finds
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  • Apr 20, 2018
Early Years Teachers 'doing more work for same pay'
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  • Apr 20, 2018
Poor pay and status risk exodus of qualified early years teachers
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  • Apr 20, 2018
Early years group calls for smacking ban
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Early years Discipline Physical abuse
  • Apr 18, 2018
2,000 people call for DfE to honour pledge on early years teachers
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DfE Teacher shortages Early years Disadvantaged
  • Apr 17, 2018
Global: Spend more aid on early years education for a life of opportunity | Sarah Brown
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Early years Funding Foreign aid Inequality
  • Apr 11, 2018
Early years census 2018: technical specification
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Census Childcare Early years Nurseries
  • Apr 6, 2018
Children's centre closures may be as high as 1,000, says study
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  • Apr 5, 2018
'Thousands of families missing out on vital support' following closure of children's centres
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Early years Childcare Closures Funding
  • Apr 5, 2018
The impact of children's centres closing down
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Sure Start Early years Closures Funding
  • Apr 5, 2018
Sure Start centres disappearing at double rate ministers claim, says charity
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Sure Start Childcare Early years Closures
  • Apr 5, 2018
Inspecting registered early years providers: guidance for inspectors
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Ofsted inspections Early years Nurseries Childcare
  • Apr 4, 2018
Early years children learn by playing | Letters
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Early years Play Curriculum
  • Apr 3, 2018
Government has broken its pledge on early years teaching, says charity
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Early years Disadvantaged Workforce Teachers Graduates Teacher training
  • Apr 3, 2018
Huge drop in local authority spending on children's services
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Funding Childcare Early years
  • Apr 3, 2018
Inspecting registered early years providers: guidance for inspectors
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Ofsted inspections Early years Nurseries Childcare
  • Apr 3, 2018
How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete
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Research Early years Learning
  • Apr 3, 2018
Consultation from the London Mayor on Early Years in London
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London Early years
  • Mar 29, 2018
Voice comments on latest Ofsted childcare statistics
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Ofsted Childcare Early years Statistics Funding Teacher recruitment Retention
  • Mar 27, 2018
Mr HInds needs an early years epiphany
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Damian Hinds Funding Teacher shortages Teacher recruitment Retention Early years
  • Mar 27, 2018
University's Early Years Teacher course first to receive Ofsted outstanding
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Early years EYITT Teacher training Ofsted ratings
  • Mar 27, 2018
Early years and childcare statistics
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Childcare Early years
  • Mar 27, 2018
Help About Early Years measure the true cost of quality childcare
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Early years Childcare 30-hour childcare Free childcare Funding DfE
  • Mar 26, 2018
EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications
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EYFS Early years Qualification
  • Mar 22, 2018
Check early years qualifications
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  • Mar 22, 2018
Statistics: childcare and early years
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Childcare Early years Statistics
  • Mar 20, 2018
Surge in early years apprenticeship applications after GCSE requirement scrapped
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Early years Apprenticeships GCSEs Functional Skills Recruitment
  • Mar 20, 2018
Research round-up 20 March 2018
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Research Funding Curriculum Early years Mental health
  • Mar 20, 2018
Colleges cause confusion by stating need for GCSEs
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Colleges GCSEs Early years Training
  • Mar 19, 2018
Early years workforce ‘becoming less qualified’
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Early years Workforce Childcare Nurseries Qualifications
  • Mar 19, 2018
Voice welcomes EPI report on early years workforce
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EPI Early years Workforce Teacher shortages Teacher recruitment Retention Nurseries Childcare
  • Mar 14, 2018
NEU comment on EPI report on early years workforce
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EPI Early years Workforce Teacher shortages Teacher recruitment Retention Nurseries Childcare
  • Mar 14, 2018
Why does Ofsted pay an overwhelmingly female group of inspectors less than their colleagues?
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Ofsted Gender inequality Pay Inspectors Primary Secondary Early years
  • Mar 14, 2018
Early years sector 'increasingly relying on volunteers'
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Volunteers Qualifications Early years Childcare Nurseries
  • Mar 14, 2018
Almost one in six Reception staff 'are unpaid volunteers'
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Reception Volunteers Early years Qualifications
  • Mar 14, 2018
Spielman 'not concerned' by lack of children's centre inspections
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Ofsted Amanda Spielman Inspections Early years
  • Mar 8, 2018
BBC sets itself target to boost literacy skills of a million under-fives
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BBC Literacy Early years Social mobility
  • Mar 8, 2018
DfE should track out-of-school children and six other key messages from Ofsted chief
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DfE Ofsted Amanda Spielman Education Select Committee Faith schools MATs Academies Illegal schools Early years Reception Inspections
  • Mar 7, 2018
Banning teachers’ preferred method of baseline assessment will relieve 'burden', says minister
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Baseline assessment Early years Primary Reception
  • Mar 6, 2018
Nursery owners borrow money to cover delayed 30-hour payments
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Nurseries Childcare Early years 30-hour childcare Funding Finances
  • Mar 6, 2018
'Play and joy' in the snow
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  • Mar 5, 2018
NDNA Workforce survey: sector reaction
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  • Mar 5, 2018
Ofsted says settings are 'not physical enough'
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  • Mar 5, 2018
30 hours childcare policy - have your say
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  • Mar 2, 2018
Scotland aims to boost role of outdoor learning for nursery-age children
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  • Mar 2, 2018
Assessment of early learning goals doesn't provide an 'honest picture', says physical development expert
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  • Mar 1, 2018
There's snow stopping us!
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  • Mar 1, 2018
Just half of three- and four-year-olds are read to every day
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  • Feb 23, 2018
Scotland: We will double free childcare hours by 2020, SNP insists
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  • Feb 23, 2018
Outdoor learning in early years boosted in bid to improve attainment
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  • Feb 22, 2018
Only half of pre-school children being read to daily, UK study finds
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  • Feb 21, 2018
Early years foundation stage statutory framework (EYFS)
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  • Feb 20, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi 'aware of 30 hours challenges'
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  • Feb 20, 2018
Early years national funding formula: funding rates and guidance
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  • Feb 19, 2018
Early education and childcare
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  • Feb 16, 2018
Salford City Council's nurseries at risk of closure
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  • Feb 16, 2018
Nursery World Show 2018 - What a picture
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  • Feb 16, 2018
Recruitment company approved to deliver Level 2 and 3 apprenticeships
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Scotland's spending watchdog raises concern about 30 hours
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Scottish spending watchdog concerned about nursery funding
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Nicola Sturgeon warned of major ‘risks’ with SNP childcare plan
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Watchdog warns of £160 million 'black hole' in Scottish nursery plan
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon’s free childcare policy is damned by official auditors
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Revealed: £160 million black hole in Sturgeon's childcare plan
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Too much TV at age 2 makes for less healthy adolescents
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  • Feb 14, 2018
Nursery World Awards 2018 open for entries
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  • Feb 14, 2018
'Baby PISA' study to go ahead in autumn
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  • Feb 14, 2018
Scotland: Childcare workforce training gets boost
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  • Feb 14, 2018
Early years self evaluation form
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  • Feb 13, 2018
What's going on in a toddler's brain?
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  • Feb 8, 2018
Free school meals and the early years pupil premium (EYPP) under Universal Credit: equality analysis
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  • Feb 7, 2018
Eligibility for free school meals and the early years pupil premium under Universal Credit
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  • Feb 7, 2018
ICP Nurseries buys two more nurseries
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  • Feb 6, 2018
Busy Bees expanding in China
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  • Feb 6, 2018
Practitioners' views sought for NDNA survey
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  • Feb 5, 2018
Let's not sacrifice play-based learning for a more structured reception experience
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  • Feb 5, 2018
Bold Beginnings: getting the message over
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  • Feb 5, 2018
Foreign interest in UK early years sector rockets
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  • Feb 5, 2018
Free National Literacy Trust membership for early years settings up for grabs
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  • Feb 2, 2018
Parents paid £1m over 'shambles' childcare scheme
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  • Feb 1, 2018
Early years census 2018: guide
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  • Jan 31, 2018
Government mental health plans 'lack early years focus'
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  • Jan 30, 2018
Network for Early Years Teachers launches next month
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  • Jan 29, 2018
Better Start Bradford launches environmental project
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  • Jan 26, 2018
Ireland: Zappone’s childcare plan faces more delays after issues with IT
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Nursery education isn’t child’s play – it needs investment to be top quality
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  • Jan 24, 2018
Families face hardship due to 'nightmare' childcare system
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  • Jan 23, 2018
Ofsted's Gill Jones begins drive to clarify Bold Beginnings report
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  • Jan 23, 2018
SEN charity launches free online resources for early years
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  • Jan 23, 2018
Children as young as three are self-harming, say teachers
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  • Jan 23, 2018
Jan Dubiel, Head of national and international development, Early Excellence
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Early years Baseline assessment
  • Jan 23, 2018
Nearly 1,000 children's centres not inspected
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  • Jan 22, 2018
Children's centres undermined by ministers, says charity
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  • Jan 22, 2018
Survey reveals barriers to training and employing EYTs
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  • Jan 22, 2018
DfE to assess the value of nursery schools
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  • Jan 19, 2018
First early years setting joins Research Schools network
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Damian Hinds: Children are being let down by depth and breadth of education
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Nurseries admit asking parents for voluntary contributions
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Early years teachers call on Ofsted to publish Bold Beginnings clarification
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Parents are forced to plug gaps in the government's 'free' childcare scheme as nurseries start charging for extras to cover the funding shortfall
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Providers introduce charges to make 30 hours free childcare viable
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Parents are ‘paying for free nursery scheme out of their own pockets’
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Outrage over each new education policy does nothing but harm | Richard Russell
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Ofsted reports Early years Reception Primary Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 18, 2018
'Completely free' 30 hours shunned by most providers
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Parents shelling out for 'free' nursery scheme
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 5
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Early years anger over Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report 'impossible to reconcile'
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Ofsted reports Reception Early years Primary Literacy Numeracy
  • Jan 17, 2018
Parents and children wanted for university reading study
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Learning through play is plane easy | Letters
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  • Jan 16, 2018
Tax-Free Childcare extended to more parents, but some still unable to sign up
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  • Jan 16, 2018
Outstanding providers
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Growing nursery group buys 10th site
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Nursery group takes on more council nurseries
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Naughty toddlers as young as two are being expelled from nurseries and sent to ‘sin bins’ for bad behaviour
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Concerns over 'inaccurate' qualifications consultation
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Long read: The battle for Reception
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  • Jan 12, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi will have responsibility for early years and social care
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  • Jan 12, 2018
EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications
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  • Jan 11, 2018
30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi to replace Robert Goodwill as children's minister
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Profile: New children's minister Nadhim Zahawi
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Nursery teacher numbers plummet
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  • Jan 11, 2018
BookTrust names free books for under-fives in 2018
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  • Jan 11, 2018
NDNA launches workforce survey
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  • Jan 10, 2018
Wales consults on plans to ban smacking
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  • Jan 10, 2018
Become a childminder: pre-registration briefing
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  • Jan 9, 2018
New Education Secretary's track record highlights early years interest
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Education secretary Damian Hinds Early years Childcare Nurseries Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jan 9, 2018
Mayor launches early years hubs to boost childcare for disadvantaged families
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  • Jan 9, 2018
Robert Goodwill – minister for SEND, early years and school sports – sacked
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  • Jan 9, 2018
Princess Charlotte starts first day at Willcocks Nursery School in style
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  • Jan 9, 2018
As Princess Charlotte starts nursery, here´s pictures of other royals on their first day
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  • Jan 8, 2018
Bold Beginnings: Ofsted publishes methods behind controversial report
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  • Jan 8, 2018
How Princess Charlotte’s nursery compares to that of Prince George, William and Charles
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  • Jan 8, 2018
New photos of Princess Charlotte released for her first day at nursery
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  • Jan 8, 2018
London mayor announces early years hubs to launch this month
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  • Jan 8, 2018
Ofsted attempts to build bridges with early-years teachers
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  • Jan 8, 2018
Shared nursery and elder care sites will end ‘age apartheid’
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  • Jan 8, 2018
Early years sector’s hopes and dreams for the year ahead
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  • Jan 8, 2018
From Bach to Baby
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Music Curriculum EYFS Early years Primary
  • Jan 8, 2018
Being bold in 2018
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  • Jan 5, 2018
MPs to probe impact of 30 hours free childcare extension
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  • Jan 5, 2018
MPs to scrutinise effectiveness of childcare policy on parental employment
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  • Jan 5, 2018
Nursery group wins bid to run children's centre settings
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  • Jan 5, 2018
Call for 'shared sites' to bring young and old together
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  • Jan 5, 2018
Parents are wrongly being told they can’t claim 30 hours of free childcare due to glitch with HMRC’s website
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  • Jan 4, 2018
Ofsted expands on Bold Beginnings messages in sector meeting
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  • Jan 4, 2018
Government scraps early years expansion fund
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  • Jan 4, 2018
Beach schools springing up around Britain
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  • Jan 4, 2018
In the January edition of CYP Now: Care leavers, early help and home education
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Home schooling Safeguarding Social justice Mental health Young offenders Early years
  • Jan 3, 2018
Early years census 2018: guide
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  • Jan 3, 2018
Statistics: childcare and early years
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Childcare and early years survey of parents: 2017
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Early years foundation stage profile return: closed collections
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Early years foundation stage profile return: how to submit data
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  • Dec 21, 2017
EYFSP return 2018: technical specification
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Starting early - what is the EEF doing to examine disadvantage before year 1?
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Early years Disadvantaged Literacy Funding Performance measures
  • Dec 19, 2017
Where will Princess Charlotte go to nursery school? Where is Willcocks Nursery in London?
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  • Dec 18, 2017
Is placing young children in ability groups “a necessary evil”?
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  • Dec 18, 2017
Princess Charlotte's nursery revealed
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  • Dec 18, 2017
Norfolk plans £5m budget cut to children's centres
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  • Dec 15, 2017
Reception classes should be reserved for the best teachers, says study
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  • Dec 15, 2017
Social mobility: all the reaction as Justine Greening sets out her 'action plan'
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Early years settings to receive £50m to improve social mobility
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Government considers U-turn on 30 hours for foster carers
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Amanda Spielman speech on the launch of Ofsted’s Annual Report 2016/17
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Key facts and areas of concern from Ofsted’s Annual Report
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Improving social mobility through education
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Social mobility: £120m pledged to tackle early years 'word gap'
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Justine Greening unveils strategy to increase poor children's opportunities
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Greening unveils four 'ambitions' to help improve social mobility
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  • Dec 14, 2017
It is unfair that foster children are excluded from 30 hours free childcare
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Spielman: Ofsted report into Reception curriculum is 'as controversial as custard'
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17: education, children’s services and skills
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted Chief Inspector launches her first Annual Report on state of education and children’s care in England
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Amanda Spielman on the launch of Ofsted's Annual Report 2016/17
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Outstanding providers
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted annual report: EYFS does not prepare children for Year 1
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Some nurseries will benefit from business rate relief from April
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted chief 'taken aback' by criticism of Reception report
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Birmingham's council nurseries up for review
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  • Dec 12, 2017
Spending on early years cut by £650m
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  • Dec 11, 2017
£650m cut from early education
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  • Dec 11, 2017
Early years workforce strategy: early years training website launches
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  • Dec 8, 2017
Early education and childcare workforce: level 2 qualifications
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Study of early education and development (SEED)
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Early years provision quality
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  • Dec 7, 2017
SEED: Early years quality on the rise across the country
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  • Dec 7, 2017
SEED research shows quality linked to staff qualifications and CPD
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Reception baseline tests: 'Parents could boycott the trials'
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  • Dec 7, 2017
PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Consultation on Level 2 early years qualifications launches
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Should the state provide free childcare for non-working parents?
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Theresa May told nursery owners are struggling under new rules
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  • Dec 6, 2017
Early years charity opens new family visitor centre in prison
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  • Dec 6, 2017
Childcare eligibility changes to extend provision to 8,000 more two-year-olds
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Reading results should 'ring in the ears of opponents of phonics', says Gibb
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  • Dec 5, 2017
More children to be eligible for funded two-year-old places
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Under-5s should be banned from using phones and computers on their own amid safety fears, report claims
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Divert childcare handouts from the middle class to the poor, says senior Tory MP
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Under-5s should be banned from using technology on their own and teenagers must be given online 'reputation management' lessons
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Views sought on early years education for disadvantaged children
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  • Dec 4, 2017
Free early years entitlement for 2 year olds under Universal Credit
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  • Dec 4, 2017
Daily roundup 4 December: Part-time jobs, free childcare, and Universal Credit
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  • Dec 4, 2017
DfE amends 'misleading' claims on 30 hours on parent website
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  • Dec 4, 2017
Nurseries 'to introduce LGBT-friendly books aimed at helping children question gender identity'
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  • Dec 3, 2017
Children as young as three given books featuring teddy bears encouraging them to question their gender
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  • Dec 3, 2017
Record number of children left in day care
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Early years Nursery places
  • Dec 3, 2017
IOE researchers develop database for early years measures
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Children as young as three grouped by ‘ability’ for high-stakes tests
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Stephen Timms MP: If the Government is serious about tackling injustice, a step change is needed in its approach to the early years
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Daily roundup 1 December: Grouping, 'open relationship', and fast food
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Early years settings urged to take part in 30 hours survey
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Early Years Teacher trainees down for a third year
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Closing the tech gender gap starts in childhood
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Children as young as 3 grouped by 'ability' to prepare for Sats
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Ofsted report on the Reception Year: a hit and miss affair
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Reception - a missed opportunity for too many children
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Comment on Ofsted report on reception education
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Summer-born children twice as likely to miss early years benchmark
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  • Nov 30, 2017
First year of school can be a waste of time, says Ofsted because basic reading and maths are not taught well enough
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Ofsted: Reception year a 'false start' for too many children
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Schools chief says third of pupils are failed in first year
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  • Nov 30, 2017
EYFS staff:child ratios - DfE approved qualifications
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Check early years qualifications
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Rise to national minimum wage threatens nurseries' survival
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Early Excellence pulls out of bid for 'unworkable' Reception baseline test
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  • Nov 29, 2017
The nursery in Amsterdam's red light district
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Nursery children spend 8 hours a week online
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Social Mobility Commission response
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Children's early years experiences vary widely across the country
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  • Nov 28, 2017
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Study of early education and development (SEED)
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Beijing kindergartens get permanent inspectors after abuse scandal
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China: Nurseries install cameras after drugging and abuse claims
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Early Years Teacher survey opens
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Montessori closes attainment gap for pre-school children
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Give children flu spray, parents urged
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Supporting parents can boost home learning
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How star jumps can boost nursery children's learning
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Study highlights benefits of parental involvement in home learning
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Reading charity and Lego join forces to encourage children's creativity
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Childcare apprenticeships panel has just one PVI representative
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Founders of kidsunlimited start new nursery group
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Autumn Budget 2017: Chancellor accused of ignoring early years funding crisis
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FOI: early years dataset as at 31 August 2017
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Disappointing Budget fails education and early years
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DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline
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Phonics 'fundamentalism' is based on flawed science, says education expert
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Childminder numbers fall by a quarter since 2012
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DfE launches 30 hours fund for councils as new rates unveiled
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Childminders continue to exit the early years sector
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More children to be eligible for EYPP
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Government accused of 'failing families' as 1,000 nurseries close in childcare 'crisis'
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Government delays tax-free childcare rollout
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EEF expands early years research
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Flagship tax-free childcare scheme delayed
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  • Nov 15, 2017
Music in the early years 'helps children learn to listen and speak'
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Early years census 2018: technical specification
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BookTrust names great books for birth to five-year-olds
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Montessori preschool boosts academic results and reduces income achievement gap
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Healthy eating guidance published for the early years sector
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Government launches early years healthy eating drive
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Assessment: Reducing children to numbers
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Children not learning about Humpty Dumpty, chief inspector says
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Government 'confusion' over early years pledge
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Early years foundation stage profile results in England 2017
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Praising children for being smart 'encourages cheating'
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It’s official: muddy kids learn best | Patrick Barkham
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More children hit government's benchmark at end of Reception
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  • Oct 19, 2017
Nursery that swaps tots’ plastic toys for power tools crowned best in Britain
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Toy-free nursery where kids are kept outside in all weathers is named Britain's best
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Thousands of parents 'unable to access 30 hours free childcare'
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Tracy Brabin: Labour will develop the best possible early years system to build a better society
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Trainee teachers don't understand safeguarding role, says Ofsted
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Early years foundation stage profile: What you need to know
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David Laws: 30-hours free childcare policy 'utterly nuts'
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  • Oct 12, 2017
Jewish nursery in London 'sack teacher for living in sin'
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Entering SEND pupils to pre-key stage standards ‘too subjective’
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Free childcare extension could widen gap between rich and poor, says charity
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Early years changes 'risk leaving poorest children further behind'
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Babies learn benefits of hard work by witnessing parents persevering with difficult tasks, finds study
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Too much information? More than 80% of children have an online presence by the age of two
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  • Sep 20, 2017
'We are family': Nurseries celebrate the diversity of family life
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Kiddi Caru Euro deal: 'The aim is to have a strong position in every country where we have settings'
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  • Sep 18, 2017
Big groups limit places and charge for extras
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Changes to early years goals and Profile planned
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Pre-school will fine parents £1 every minute they are late
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Parents to be fined £1 a minute if they're late picking their children up from pre-school
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  • Sep 13, 2017
Singapore: World's largest early years setting opens
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Scottish nurseries win end to business rates
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UK parents spend more on childcare than in other OECD countries
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  • Sep 12, 2017
Third of parents 'yet to access 30 hours childcare'
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30 hours free childcare: eligibility codes issued and validated
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Parents still struggling to access 30-hours places
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Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Tulip Siddiq named chair of early years APPG
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Kidd Caru sold to European childcare provider
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Charities call for early years teachers to lead all nurseries in poor areas
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Shortage of funding barrier to school readiness
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Delivery of 30 hours 'challenging' for biggest nursery groups
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Early years language training boosts children's skills
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Underfunded nurseries need a happy ending
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Thousands of parents do not understand Tax-Free Childcare
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  • Sep 5, 2017
Childcare challenge for shift workers
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Schools and nurseries helping youngsters improve dental care
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Nursery staff 'require pay cut' for 30 hours childcare to be sustainable
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  • Sep 4, 2017
Sector feels the strain after fall in new Level 3s
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Settings warn their viability is at risk under 30 hours
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Fresh funding concerns emerge as free 30 hour childcare launches
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New DfE report on 30 hours free childcare pilot
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  • Sep 1, 2017
Playing fields could fall foul of 30 hours of childcare policy
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  • Sep 1, 2017
Pledge of 30 hours ‘free’ childcare will cost parents dear
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  • Sep 1, 2017
Failure to invest in early years provision risks creating “lost generation” and hitting social mobility, warns senior Labour MP
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  • Aug 31, 2017
Over half of parents apply for free 30 hours' childcare
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  • Aug 31, 2017
Failure to invest in early years for the disadvantaged will create 'lost generation'
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  • Aug 31, 2017
Report slams distribution of government's £9bn childcare spending
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Education charity warns of 30 hour free childcare 'chaos'
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Childcare website 'must be improved', says Morgan
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  • Aug 23, 2017
Business rates could be scrapped for Scottish nurseries
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  • Aug 22, 2017
Benefits freeze adds to cost of raising children for low-income families
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Early 30 hours codes for two-year-olds lead to confusion
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  • Aug 21, 2017
Parents struggling to afford basics for children, study finds
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  • Aug 21, 2017
Have your say on early years arts and creativity
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  • Aug 21, 2017
Two-year-olds should learn to code, says computing pioneer
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  • Aug 20, 2017
More nurseries 'bridge the generations' between young and old
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  • Aug 17, 2017
Hijab girl in children’s books ‘is sexualising four-year-olds’
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  • Aug 14, 2017
Daily roundup 11 August: Childcare website, custody figures, and abuse case
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Nurseries to charge parents and restrict places for 30 hours offer
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Parents offered compensation over troubled Tax-Free Childcare
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Just Childcare on track with expansion plans
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Put to the vote: German nursery where children make the decisions
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Nurseries plan to restrict 30 hour places and charge parents
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  • Aug 10, 2017
Kids Planet buys nursery number 20
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  • Aug 9, 2017
100th nursery gains paediatric first aid award
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  • Aug 9, 2017
Troubled government Childcare Service website could face select committee probe
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  • Aug 8, 2017
Busy Bees adds to string of acquisitions
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Struggling nurseries told to do parents' ironing and use volunteers
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30 hours take-up exceeds forecast in York, study shows
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Morgan demands answers on 30 hours' free childcare website glitches
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Glitches with key free childcare website probed
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HMRC under fire over childcare website failings
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  • Aug 4, 2017
Children’s services omnibus
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Former education secretary demands answers about HMRC's Childcare Service
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  • Aug 3, 2017
New research finds childcare has poor record on minimum wage
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Busy Bees ties up acquisition of Canadian group
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TV show aims to prove benefits of bringing young and old together
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Government starts drive for UK nursery providers to launch in China
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  • Jul 27, 2017
A quarter of children using food banks over summer are under five
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North West nursery group eyes expansion
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New online toolkit offers free business advice to childminders
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Early learning and school readiness: research evidence
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  • Jul 26, 2017
Promoting social mobility early
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Government’s flagship free childcare scheme is already leading to nursery closures, sector warns
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  • Jul 25, 2017
In the new edition of CYP Now: School readiness special; new children's minister interview; journey of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child
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  • Jul 25, 2017
Daily roundup 25 July: Goodwill, gender, and Brexit
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  • Jul 25, 2017
Families fight children's centre closures
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Essex nursery 'closes because of universal free hours scheme'
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  • Jul 25, 2017
Time spent in early years settings leads to better-paid jobs
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  • Jul 24, 2017
SEED: Report reveals benefits of ECEC at age three
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Analysis: 30 hours pilot study predicts success but flags up 'risks'
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Birmingham children's centres under threat
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  • Jul 20, 2017
Updated 30 hours guide sets out expectation that parents pay for meals
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  • Jul 20, 2017
Childcare service opens for parents with children under five
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  • Jul 19, 2017
DfE clarifies nursery schools & classes not limited by Published Admissions Number (PAN)
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Benefits of 30 hours confirmed as free childcare places soar
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  • Jul 18, 2017
SEND charity launches online training resources
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Labour’s national education service is an idea whose time has come | Melissa Benn
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Free childcare policy hit by online glitch
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Sector slams DfE for failing to address 30-hour childcare challenges
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  • Jul 17, 2017
30 hours free childcare: early implementation evaluation
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Childcare providers in 30 hours trial report fall in profits
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Pilot study finds no financial barriers to 30-hour childcare
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Nursery groups on expansion trail
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  • Jul 14, 2017
Council nurseries consider charging parents of funded twos for meals
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  • Jul 14, 2017
Nursery teachers may be sent to primaries to plug staff gaps
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Three-quarters of Cambridgeshire children's centres face axe
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Labour calls on sector to take part in 30-hours survey
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Travelling tutors offer Froebel training
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Early education use and child outcomes up to age 3
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Social mobility summit blog
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Early years childcare 'beneficial for language and behaviour'
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  • Jul 12, 2017
SEED: Government-funded study highlights value of early years education for all
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Kids Planet acquires 19th nursery
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  • Jul 12, 2017
£590 per head social mobility GDP boost
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  • Jul 12, 2017
'Growing uncertainty' over prospects for young people
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Public ranks comprehensive schools as best for social mobility
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  • Jul 12, 2017
UK's first nursery in care home to open in London (video)
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Early years provider fined for running illegal nursery
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  • Jul 10, 2017
First nursery at care home unveiled
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Busy Bees buys Canadian nursery provider
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Parents could miss out on 30 hours because of IT glitch
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Grenfell Tower drawings encouraged by nursery
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Early years census 2018: guide
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Conference to tackle gender imbalance in early years workforce
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Nursery children raise money for Grenfell
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Labour appoints new shadow early years minister
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Labour appoints shadow childcare minister
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  • Jul 3, 2017
Picture books with too many illustrations 'hinder children's vocabulary learning'
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  • Jul 3, 2017
New design guide for early years settings
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Ofsted 'requires improvement' - says Ofsted early years chief
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  • Jun 30, 2017
Nursery World Awards 2017: the shortlists revealed
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Nursery free hours extra cash worth 'less than a stamp'
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  • Jun 30, 2017
Planned increase in academisation needs careful monitoring to protect quality and availability of early education, report warns
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Warning over impact of academy expansion on school-based childcare
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2017
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DfE figures show more two-year-olds in schools
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Sector urges parties to prioritise children's issues in general election
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Give nursery children lessons about same-sex relationships, say teachers
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Call to teach toddlers about transgender issues
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NDNA urges 30 hours rethink in wake of survey
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Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences
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PACEY awarded £400k to support childminders to deliver 30 hours
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  • Apr 12, 2017
Charity wins funding to boost SEND expertise of early years staff
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Nursery market sees rush of early years setting sales
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Early Years Capital Fund
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  • Apr 11, 2017
Supporting early years providers to run sustainable businesses
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Government announces £50m childcare investment ahead of 30 hours policy
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  • Apr 11, 2017
Families to benefit from £55 million boost to childcare schemes
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Tories race to fulfil childcare pledge
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DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion
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  • Apr 10, 2017
Can pre-school children learn to do science? | Jenny Rohn
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  • Apr 4, 2017
Family and Childcare Trust appoints joint Chief Executives
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Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'
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  • Apr 4, 2017
Most parents unlikely to get extra free childcare
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  • Apr 4, 2017
Free nursery hours plan risks higher fees, say campaigners
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  • Apr 3, 2017
Less than half of providers to offer 30-hour free childcare
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Nurseries unwilling to commit to Government's 30-hour childcare scheme
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More parents taking up pilot 30-hours than expected
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Ofsted 'busts myths' as inspections go in-house
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EYFS Profile and new Reception baseline included in primary assessment consultation
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Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework
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Campaigners slam reception baseline plans
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Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 24 March 2017
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  • Mar 24, 2017
Fair funding campaign extended to parents
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  • Mar 24, 2017
Scotland's Blueprint for 2020 sets out early years and childcare plans
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  • Mar 24, 2017
Cursive writing, what you need to know
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  • Mar 24, 2017
Home News Daily roundup 23 March: Nursery cash, teacher recruitment, and cuddly toys
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  • Mar 23, 2017
New research predicts shortfall of nurseries offering extended free hours in Scotland
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  • Mar 23, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon's free childcare policy under fire as nurseries cannot afford it
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  • Mar 23, 2017
Nursery concerns to be addressed
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DfE launches website ahead of tax-free childcare launch
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  • Mar 22, 2017
30 hours free childcare: eligibility
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  • Mar 22, 2017
New Childcare Choices parents' website goes live
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  • Mar 22, 2017
Sillars calls for SNP rebellion over ‘named person’ scheme
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  • Mar 21, 2017
John Swinney told to ‘do a Hammond’ over Named Person scheme
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  • Mar 20, 2017
Leading early childhood experts warn against basing policy on flawed data
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Free speech and language training for nurseries
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EYFSP return 2017: technical specification
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Apprenticeship trailblazers 'bullied' over GCSEs, claim former members
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  • Mar 20, 2017
Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training
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GCSEs U-turn praised, but questions remain
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  • Mar 20, 2017
Nationalist kindergarten scandal risks engulfing Abe
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  • Mar 20, 2017
Michael Gove: Immigration has had double-edged impact on education
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  • Mar 18, 2017
Primary school teachers' suicide rate nearly double national average, figures reveal
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  • Mar 17, 2017
One in ten nursery workers paid below the minimum wage
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  • Mar 17, 2017
Sector outraged over claims that many nurseries are breaking Living Wage rules
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  • Mar 17, 2017
Government denies that Budget adjustments indicate 30-hour places shortfall
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  • Mar 17, 2017
Daily roundup 17 March: Nursery wages row, school funding, and improvement efforts
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  • Mar 17, 2017
Illegal low pay for 20,000 nursery staff - claim
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Early years national funding formula: allocations and guidance
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Government refusing to reveal details of work by childcare taskforce
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  • Mar 15, 2017
Ofsted statistics show further decline in childminders
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  • Mar 14, 2017
Parents missing out on free places because councils failing to follow guidance
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  • Mar 13, 2017
Parents 'stuck' in disputes over cross-border nursery funding
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  • Mar 13, 2017
Methodology matters
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  • Mar 9, 2017
Budget: Critics attack lack of action on free childcare funding
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  • Mar 8, 2017
Chancellor accused of 'ignoring' early years sector in favour of pubs
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  • Mar 8, 2017
Spring Budget 2017: Tax-Free Childcare to start from April
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  • Mar 8, 2017
Scotland resumes push for ‘named child’ policy
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  • Mar 7, 2017
‘Named person’ plans to be delayed until after new legislation
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Further delay for Named Person scheme
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Pilot provider warns 30-hour free childcare initiative is 'economic suicide'
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  • Mar 7, 2017
John Swinney to make Named Persons statement
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  • Mar 7, 2017
Early years research programme to plug 'analysis gap'
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  • Mar 6, 2017
PACEY Workforce survey finds childminders more confident than nurseries about the future
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  • Mar 6, 2017
All families should have access to early years education
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Mixed response to DfE's new model agreement
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Timpson announces £215m to improve school SEND facilities
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Early years educator apprenticeship requirement u-turn confirmed
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  • Mar 3, 2017
Response to the Workforce Strategy
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GCSE requirement for early years trainees scrapped as workforce strategy is unveiled
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Revised EYFS updates Level 3 and first aid rules
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GCSE Level 3 rules scrapped as Early Years Workforce Strategy is released
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New research project: early years inspections. Could you help?
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  • Mar 3, 2017
All families should have access to early years education, say NAHT
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  • Mar 2, 2017
Cost of childcare remains too high for parents, charity warns
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  • Mar 2, 2017
Scottish parents face childcare costs hike
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  • Mar 2, 2017
Relief for Welsh parents as childcare prices drop – but not enough childcare available for working parents
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  • Mar 2, 2017
Sky high London childcare costs are a third more than national average
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  • Mar 2, 2017
Hard working parents torpedoed by stubbornly high childcare costs
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Education spending across the age range
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  • Feb 28, 2017
Check if your London nursery, school or college is exposed to toxic air
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  • Feb 27, 2017
FE and sixth forms to suffer from 30 years without additional funding
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  • Feb 27, 2017
IFS: School pupil funding cuts 'deepest for 30 years'
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Lack of awareness stopping providers from applying for EYPP
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Bringing maths into everyday activities key to success
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  • Feb 27, 2017
Revealed: thousands of children at London schools breathe toxic air
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Fresh setback for 30-hour nursery place scheme
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Tens of thousands of providers don't plan to offer 30 hour childcare
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  • Feb 23, 2017
Childcare and early years providers survey: 2016
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How to help all children do better at maths: primary and early years report from Fair Education Alliance
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  • Feb 23, 2017
Research round-up 21 February 2017
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  • Feb 22, 2017
NICE advice to look for 'soft' signs of child abuse
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Parenting programmes boost children's outcomes
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  • Feb 20, 2017
Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock
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  • Feb 17, 2017
Most parents want early years teachers in nurseries
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Shortage of early years teachers 'risks developmental delay' for 800,000 children
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Wake up to early years funding crisis and importance of union membership
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Alliance launches funding rate database to help providers plan
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  • Feb 2, 2017
School leadership podcast January 2017
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Wales childcare pledge 'could cost £200m'
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  • Oct 16, 2016
Nursery schools 'at risk of extinction', MP warns
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  • Oct 12, 2016
Home News Government unveils £5.2m grant scheme to support 30-hours childcare drive
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  • Oct 11, 2016
Programme helps to close achievement gap for disadvantaged pupils
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  • Oct 11, 2016
Shadow early years minister named in Labour reshuffle
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  • Oct 10, 2016
Greening’s first education questions: Green paper ‘will help’ SEN pupils, and four other things we learned
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  • Oct 10, 2016
Wanted: More men to work in nursery sector
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Glasgow City Council relaxes cap on free places in private nurseries
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  • Sep 30, 2016
Voice backs warnings from early years campaigners
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  • Sep 29, 2016
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Campaign aims to end early years funding shortfalls
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Campaign aims to end early years funding shortfalls
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  • Sep 29, 2016
Childcare costs to 'sky-rocket' as free scheme expands
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  • Sep 29, 2016
Childcare costs to 'sky-rocket' as free scheme expands
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  • Sep 29, 2016
Nurseries at risk as staffing crisis hits, campaigners say
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  • Sep 29, 2016
Labour: Early years taskforce will help every child fulfil potential
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Labour to set out plans for early years taskforce
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Labour Party conference: Education speech
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Labour’s early years taskforce a welcome addition to the debate, say school leaders
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Labour to establish early years taskforce
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Thousands of children 'could miss out on nursery places' over changes to funding
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Labour to launch childcare taskforce to ‘transform’ early years
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Labour to set up new early years taskforce
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Response to announcement of a childcare taskforce by Labour
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  • Sep 27, 2016
Nursery schools could be forced to shut in funding crisis warn head teachers
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Nurseries 'could close' due to Tory childcare pledge
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Childcare leaders reject 30-hour funding plans
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Early Education responds to DfE's Early Years funding consultation in England
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Government plan for 30 hour of free childcare 'threatens hundreds of nursery schools'
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Hundreds of nursery schools 'could close' under funding changes
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Government should admit 30 'free hours fail', sector claims
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Nursery schools could be forced to shut in funding crisis warn head teachers
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Nurseries 'could close' if Tory free childcare plans go ahead
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Extra free childcare 'threatens nursery schools'
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  • Sep 22, 2016
Early years funding plans 'body blow' for nursery schools
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  • Sep 22, 2016
New government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns NAHT
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  • Sep 21, 2016
Rise in number of pre-school children with their own tablets
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  • Sep 21, 2016
Testing 'killing the joy of reading', top author claims
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  • Sep 21, 2016
Trial of new digital childcare service to start later this year
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  • Sep 19, 2016
Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’
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  • Sep 19, 2016
Tax-Free Childcare invites are sent to providers
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  • Sep 19, 2016
Momentum movement plans youth network
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  • Sep 18, 2016
Graduate-led sector made 'pipe-dream' by new funding formula
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  • Sep 16, 2016
Our analysis and response to the DfE’s early years funding consultation
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  • Sep 15, 2016