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Councils given new advice on play provision

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  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A website to help local authorities create child-friendly communities in areas such as planning, designing and policing has been launched by Play England and SkillsActive.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Children's communications skills will be the focus of a 'National Year' campaign in 2011 spearheaded by the Communication Trust, a 38-strong consortium of private and voluntary sector providers, set up by Afasic, BT Better World Campaign, the Council for Disabled Children and I CAN.

Baby takes part in brain study

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  • Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Four-month-old Matai Reid from Durham took part in a brain study last week to help psychologists at Durham University understand how autism develops in babies.

Interactive dance show on tour

    News
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
  • | Nursery World
An interactive dance show for young children about a Native American jingle dress is touring schools and theatres this autumn.

BBC lobbied on children's radio

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  • Tuesday, August 31, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A radio network for pre-school and primary age children that would help improve their listening and language skills should replace the BBC Asian Network, according to campaigners.

Interview - Sue Atkins, Parenting expert

    News
  • Monday, August 22, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Sue Atkins talks to Sue Learner about parenting and discipline, in the wake of the riots that spread destruction through the streets of London and most of the major English cities.

Flying Start is found to make advances for under-threes

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  • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A programme that provides support services for under-threes and free childcare for two-year-olds in Wales is having a positive impact on their emotional and social development, an interim evaluation has found.

Child poverty set to increase as jobs go

    News
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A fifth of seven-year-olds in the UK live in severe poverty with both parents combined earning less than half the national average, according to new research.

Free school meals feed minds as well as bodies

    News
  • Friday, August 3, 2012
  • | Nursery World
A two-year pilot that made free school meals available for all primary pupils significantly improved children's attainment, with children making between four and eight weeks more progress than is generally the case.

Analysis: Why early intervention needs to be a priority

    News
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Even before the General Election, politicians from different parties were uniting in calls for investment in early intervention that could reduce society's ills and costs over the long term. Laura Marcus looks at the possibilities for making it happen.

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