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DfE updates guidance on wider opening for early years and childcare providers

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  • Wednesday, June 3, 2020
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education has updated guidance for early years and childcare providers, including confirmation that from 1 June, childminders can look after children of all ages, in line with their current Ofsted registration, and within usual limits on the number of children they can care for.

Free vitamins extended to more families

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  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Free vitamins are being given to children up to the age of four and all pregnant and breastfeeding women, under a scheme being piloted in Wales.

Parental choice

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  • Wednesday, January 2, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I am a registered childminder and a former pharmacy lab assistant at our local hospital. When my 19-month-old son Samuel was due to have his vaccinations, I had all the 'inside' information and made what I felt was the right choice. He was vaccinated and he remains a very happy and healthy little boy. The vaccination debate has been going on for years. When I was born in 1976, my mother was frightened by the arguments against the whooping cough vaccine and decided I should not have them. I caught whooping cough when I was two years old, was hospitalised and nearly died. Two years on I contracted mumps.

Study points way to children's five-a-day

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2014
    • | Nursery World
New research shows that while school gardening initiatives do little to improve children’s fruit and vegetable intake, eating meals together as a family can significantly boost current levels of consumption.

MPs set out vision for '1001 days'

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  • Wednesday, February 25, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Supporting parental and child wellbeing through pregnancy to the first two years of a child’s life should be viewed as a key priority and attract as much spending as the defence budget, former children’s minister Tim Loughton has said.

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