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Disadvantaged children will miss out on childcare expansion plans, unless support is targeted – report

Thursday, May 25, 2023

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Government plans to increase childcare will mean that a low-income parent stands to take home just £4 an hour after childcare costs and changes to universal credit are taken into account, according to research by two major charities.

National tutoring catch-up scheme failing disadvantaged pupils, say MPs

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Friday, March 11, 2022

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The Government’s multi-million pound catch-up programme risks failing pupils who need it the most, leaving them facing an ‘epidemic of educational inequality’, a report from the education select committee says .

Two-thirds of primary schools sign up to early language scheme

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Friday, March 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Two-thirds of primary schools have signed up for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme for four- and five-year-olds, according to the Department for Education, which is encouraging more schools to sign up for the scheme.

Huge numbers of children starting school developmentally delayed - study

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

| Nursery World

Around half of four-year-olds were ‘not ready’ to start Reception last September, according to a new survey by education foundation Kindred Squared.

Calls for early years pupil premium to match primary schools' rate

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

| Nursery World

A charity is calling for the Government to ‘align’ the early years pupil premium rate with the amount primary schools receive.

'No real support' for early years in Government's levelling up white paper

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

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Early years organisations, charities and teaching unions have criticised the Government’s new package of measures to transform education for disadvantaged children.

Government urged to put disadvantaged children at ‘centre stage’ of Covid-19 recovery plan

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

The Social Mobility Commission (SMC), an independent body which advises the Government, says the youngest and most deprived in society need to be the focus of the UK’s pandemic recovery.

Disadvantaged children fall further behind due to Covid

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Monday, July 5, 2021

| Nursery World

New research reveals the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils in Key Stage 1 has grown since the second lockdown.

Labour urges Conservative MPs to vote for its education catch-up plans

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

| Nursery World

Labour will use an opposition day motion on Wednesday to push for Conservative MPs to end the ‘catalogue of chaos’ and back 'an ambitious plan' for children's education recovery, ahead of the school summer holidays.

School catch-up tsar resigns in funding row

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Thursday, June 3, 2021

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The prime minister’s catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins resigned on Wednesday night in response to the Government’s ‘half-hearted approach’ to education recovery for hundreds of thousands of children, whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic.

Sector seeks 'catch-up' cash to alleviate Covid's impact

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Various organisations urge the Government to make more funding available to early years settings as parents and practitioners reveal concerns over lockdown’s effect on children.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

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Friday, May 14, 2021

| Nursery World

Nearly half of early years providers believe the gap between disadvantaged under-fives and their peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey suggests, with the majority finding that fewer children across all backgrounds are reaching expected pre-Covid levels of attainment.

Queen's speech 2021: children's early years identified as a priority

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

| Nursery World

The Queen has made reference to the early years in her speech to officially re-open Parliament.

Children's laureate calls on PM to invest in school libraries

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

| Nursery World

Children’s laureate Cressida Cowell is calling on the Prime Minister to invest £100m a year to create and sustain primary school libraries.

Children's commissioner Anne Longfield takes ministers to task in final speech

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

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‘The Prime Minister’s promise to “level up” is just a slogan unless it focuses on children,’ challenged Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield in her outgoing speech today [Wednesday].

Funding scheme boosts early speech and language intervention

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Councils have improved local speech and language services and raised the profile of the early years under a new £8.5 million Government scheme targeting disadvantaged under-fives, according to a new report.

Research to look at impact of lockdown on Reception children's readiness for school

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Monday, October 5, 2020

| Nursery World

The Education Endowment Foundation is funding three different studies that will look at the impact of nursery and school closures on children’s learning.

Education alone will not close social mobility gap - study

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

| Nursery World

The effect of deprivation in dozens of English local authorities is now so persistent that some families face being locked into disadvantage for generations unless the right action is taken, a new report shows.

Disadvantaged children need 'long-term' catch-up support as learning gap grows

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

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Teachers estimate that children are on average three months behind in their learning, while the gap between disadvantaged children and their peers has risen by 46 per cent, according to new research.

Attainment gap 'stagnant' for early years, says new research

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

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The attainment gap between rich and poor Reception-age children has stagnated for seven years, new analysis from the Education Policy Institute has found.

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Disadvantaged children will miss out on childcare expansion plans, unless support is targeted – report

National tutoring catch-up scheme failing disadvantaged pupils, say MPs

Two-thirds of primary schools sign up to early language scheme

Huge numbers of children starting school developmentally delayed - study

Calls for early years pupil premium to match primary schools' rate

'No real support' for early years in Government's levelling up white paper

Government urged to put disadvantaged children at ‘centre stage’ of Covid-19 recovery plan

Disadvantaged children fall further behind due to Covid

Labour urges Conservative MPs to vote for its education catch-up plans

School catch-up tsar resigns in funding row

Sector seeks 'catch-up' cash to alleviate Covid's impact

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

Queen's speech 2021: children's early years identified as a priority

Children's laureate calls on PM to invest in school libraries

Children's commissioner Anne Longfield takes ministers to task in final speech

Funding scheme boosts early speech and language intervention

Research to look at impact of lockdown on Reception children's readiness for school

Education alone will not close social mobility gap - study

Disadvantaged children need 'long-term' catch-up support as learning gap grows

Attainment gap 'stagnant' for early years, says new research

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