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Mental health services failing children, children's commissioner warns

Thursday, January 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, has warned that a mental health service that meets the needs of all children who require treatment is still a decade away.

Coronavirus: Families on free school meals will be sent vouchers during school closures

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

| Nursery World

Children eligible for free school meals will be offered vouchers, food or meals if they are no longer going to school during the coronavirus outbreak.

Nursery workers struggle to get Covid-19 tests leaves settings with staff shortages

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

| Nursery World

Difficulty accessing coronavirus tests is negatively impacting on the childcare sector as early years workers are having to self-isolate because they cannot get tests for themselves or family members.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Nurseries 'do their bit' and join Marcus Rashford campaign against holiday hunger

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries and pre-schools have been providing lunch parcels to children and delivering meals to foodbanks during half term, as public pressure mounts on the Government over its decision not to extend free school meals during the holidays.

Coronavirus: London nurseries forced to close as staff hospitalised and the new variant spreads

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Monday, January 18, 2021

| Nursery World

Four members of staff have been hospitalised with Covid-19 from London's largest group of social enterprise nurseries, and more than a third of its settings have been forced to close.

Government launches new mental health training for schools

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has announced funding grants for up to 7,800 primary and secondary schools and colleges to pay for training for senior leaders to roll out an effective ‘whole school’ approach to mental health and wellbeing.

New institute launches to connect childcare experts across the world

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Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

A new institute to drive the improvement of learning and care for babies, toddlers and young children has launched today.

Health and wellbeing study given 33.5m

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

A 33.5m project is to follow the lives of 90,000 British children from birth to find out more about what factors affect health and happiness in society.

Scotland pushes outdoor activities in new guidelines

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Thursday, April 27, 2017

| Nursery World

Outdoor learning, exercise and play are highlighted in the Scottish government’s action plan for early learning and childcare.

Milk supplier's suspension puts delivery in disarray

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Milk supplier Scotts has been suspended from claiming for free nursery milk after a number of discrepancies in its claims.

Children's soft drinks advertising makes 'false health claims'

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Friday, September 16, 2011

| Nursery World

Parents are being misled by soft drinks marketing that falsely claims many drinks that are targeted at children contain fruit and are healthy when they are not, according to research.

Talking therapies for children with mental health problems

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has announced it is providing up to 3m in funding to deliver a two-year programme to increase early intervention mental health support for children in the voluntary and community sector.

Government wants to lure back former health visitors

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

| Nursery World

The Government is urging health visitors who have left their jobs to return to the profession, as part of plans for recruiting 4,200 health visitors that are to be unveiled in the autumn.

A quarter of children using food banks over summer are under five

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

| Nursery World

Families with young children are increasingly relying on emergency food supplies during the summer holidays, analysis by the Trussell Trust reveals.

Children inhaling toxic air in the classroom and on school run

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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Children in the UK are exposed to more than 60 per cent of their daily air pollution intake during the school day and their journeys to and from school, according to new research.

Health visitor numbers at their lowest since 2012

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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of health visitors has fallen by 8 per cent in a year and is now at its lowest level for six years, according to new analysis by the Labour party.

Millions of pounds 'missing' in school meals funding

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Thursday, June 27, 2019

| Nursery World

Millions of pounds allocated by the Government for free school meals for some of the poorest children in the country is unaccounted for, according to a new report.

London Assembly calls for expansion of free school meals

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

| Nursery World

More funding is required for free school meals and breakfast clubs to help tackle high levels of child food poverty, recommends a report by the London Assembly.

Government mental health plans ‘failing a generation’ of children

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has come under fire from both the education and health select committees of MPs, who say that its flawed plans risk leaving hundreds of thousands of children without the care they need.

'Alarming' increase in food insecurity as millions are forced to skip meals

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

| Nursery World

Within the past month, nearly one in five households, including those with children, have eaten less, skipped meals or gone without eating for an entire day, reveals new data.

'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

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Thursday, March 5, 2020

| Nursery World

According to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s (RCPCH) State of Child Health 2020 report, progress on children’s health outcomes across this country has mostly stalled or reversed – something rarely seen in high-income countries.

Survey reveals impact of lockdown on children

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Friday, May 1, 2020

| Nursery World

The impact that the lockdown is having on children’s mental well-being is worrying 60 per cent of parents, according to a poll of families with primary-aged children.

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

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Monday, June 8, 2020

| Nursery World

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.

Government launches new obesity strategy

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Monday, July 27, 2020

| Nursery World

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

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

| Nursery World

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

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Mental health services failing children, children's commissioner warns

Coronavirus: Families on free school meals will be sent vouchers during school closures

Nursery workers struggle to get Covid-19 tests leaves settings with staff shortages

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Nurseries 'do their bit' and join Marcus Rashford campaign against holiday hunger

Coronavirus: London nurseries forced to close as staff hospitalised and the new variant spreads

Government launches new mental health training for schools

New institute launches to connect childcare experts across the world

Health and wellbeing study given 33.5m

Scotland pushes outdoor activities in new guidelines

Milk supplier's suspension puts delivery in disarray

Children's soft drinks advertising makes 'false health claims'

Talking therapies for children with mental health problems

Government wants to lure back former health visitors

A quarter of children using food banks over summer are under five

Children inhaling toxic air in the classroom and on school run

Health visitor numbers at their lowest since 2012

Millions of pounds 'missing' in school meals funding

London Assembly calls for expansion of free school meals

Government mental health plans ‘failing a generation’ of children

'Alarming' increase in food insecurity as millions are forced to skip meals

'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

Survey reveals impact of lockdown on children

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

Government launches new obesity strategy

Concerns over growing childhood obesity crisis

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