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With the number of families with twins steadily increasing across the UK, more early years practitioners are having to learn how to tailor their practice to care for multiples.
In 1976, 9.6 women in every 1,000 gave birth to more than one baby, while by 2012, the most recent year for which figures have been released, this rate had risen to 15.6, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number of twins born in the UK has increased by 50 per cent since the 1980s, and in 2012 more than 12,400 sets of twins were born.
Even with this increase, however, few practitioners deal with quite as many twins as those at Child First Nursery in Banbury, which currently has seven sets on roll.
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