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Around a third of parents used formal childcare in April

Friday, May 22, 2020

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Children’s minister Vicky Ford has thanked early years professionals for their ‘continued dedication’ in helping critical workers and parents of vulnerable children to access childcare during the pandemic, as official statistics reveal the take-up of childcare during lockdown.

Coronavirus: Bulk of childcare and household chores fall to mothers in lockdown

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

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Working mothers are bearing the brunt of the new workload during lockdown, a new study has revealed

Coronavirus: Scotland issues guidance ahead of reopening of nurseries

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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Childcare providers in Scotland have been issued with new guidance to help plan for reopening settings once it is deemed safe to do so.

Coronavirus: Under-fives' mental health at risk

Monday, June 8, 2020

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Covid-19 is likely to increase the strain on the mental health of under-fives and their parents, warns the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), at the start of this week’s Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.

Call to make the youngest a priority in Government response to Covid-19

Monday, June 8, 2020

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More than 70 children’s and mental health charities and organisations have written to the prime minister calling for the Government to invest in the well-being of babies and toddlers in Covid-19 recovery plans.

Parents face challenges accessing childcare as lockdown eases

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

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Working parents will continue to have problems finding the childcare they need for the foreseeable future, a social enterprise specialising in intergeneration care has warned.

Around a quarter of early years providers still closed, research suggests

Monday, June 15, 2020

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Around a quarter (24 per cent) of nursery and pre-school settings remained closed in the week beginning 1 June, despite the Government giving the go-ahead for opening early years provision to all children, a report by independent sector analysts Ceeda has found.

Coronavirus: Call to reopen playgrounds as 'a priority'

Friday, June 12, 2020

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Guidelines for when and how playgrounds will be brought back into use ‘must be provided immediately’ if the Government serious about tackling obesity amid the pandemic, the Association of Play Industries has warned.

Coronavirus: Children and staff will no longer need to keep to small 'bubbles' in early years settings

Thursday, July 2, 2020

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Children and staff in nurseries and pre-schools will no longer have to stay in separate groups or bubbles from 20 July, the Department for Education has confirmed in updated guidance.

Coronavirus: Early years sector snubbed by Government in catch-up funding plan

Friday, June 19, 2020

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Early years organisations have slammed their omission from sharing any of the £1bn funding package that schools will receive as part of a catch-up plan for children who have fallen behind from missing education in lockdown.

Government launches new obesity strategy

Monday, July 27, 2020

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A ban on junk food ads before the 9pm watershed is one of the measures being brought in by the Government to tackle ‘the ticking time bomb’ of obesity.

Concerns over growing childhood obesity crisis

Thursday, July 16, 2020

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Urgent measures must be taken to tackle childhood obesity as figures highlight an ongoing and growing crisis, the Labour Party reveals.

Lack of summer support as millions of parents are urged back to the office

Monday, July 20, 2020

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Parents are being penalised by being asked to return to their offices without childcare, holiday activities or catch-up schemes in place to support them over the summer holidays, the Labour Party claims.

Coronavirus: Playgrounds under threat as councils face pandemic costs

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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Local authority budget pressures are leading to children’s playgrounds being closed in Nottingham, with the Association of Play Industries (API) warning that more areas could be affected if the Government does not provide funding.

EXCLUSIVE: Ofsted data shows early years settings with Covid cases doubling every week

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

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Cases of Covid-19 in early years settings have been doubling every week on average since the first week of September, Nursery World can reveal, as early years settings continue to struggle to access tests, despite being classed as essential workers with priority access to testing.

Coronavirus: Toddlers from poorest families 'missing out' on outdoor space and books in lockdown

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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Babies and toddlers from disadvantaged families spent less time outdoors and reading and playing with their parents during lockdown than their better-off peers, according to new research.

Nurseries conflicted over test and trace responsibilities over Christmas holidays

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

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The requirement for early years leaders to be available to help with contact tracing during the Christmas holidays has been met with dismay by some in the sector.

Coronavirus: All women now entitled to have a partner at birth

Friday, December 18, 2020

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Pregnant women should be able to have someone with them for all their maternity appointments, scans and for the entire labour and birth, NHS health trusts in England have been told.

Coronavirus: Government revises guidance for children of key workers

Monday, January 11, 2021

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Children of keyworkers should stay at home ‘if they can’, the Government has said, in the latest change to school guidance.

Sector unites in call for Government to protect early years settings and workers

Thursday, January 7, 2021

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Early years organisations have joined forces to call on the Government to take urgent action to protect the nurseries, pre-schools and childminders it has asked to stay open, in the wake of record cases of Covid-19.

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