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Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

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Police and transport workers will be eligible for a loan up to £1,500 to pay for upfront childcare costs, which Sadiq Khan says are stopping mothers returning to work.

Bill to eradicate child poverty in Scotland tabled

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Friday, February 10, 2017

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New legislation setting targets to reduce and end child poverty in Scotland is currently being considered by Scottish ministers.

EYFS REVIEW: Second consultation deadline is nearing

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Monday, January 9, 2012

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The early years sector has only until 19 January to respond to the Department for Education's second consultation on proposed changes to some of the learning and development requirements in the EYFS.

All nurseries should have early years teachers, charity says

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

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Children's charity Save the Children is calling for every nursery in England to have a qualified early years teacher by 2020.

30 hours: local authorities to bid for capital funding

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

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Councils will be able to bid for capital grants to drive the Government’s expansion of the 30 hours entitlement.

Baseline protest group calls for assessment review after DfE U-turn

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Monday, April 11, 2016

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The Better Without Baseline Coalition is calling for a review of assessment and accountability for the early years following the scrapping of Baseline as a progress measure.

Leicestershire delays payment shift following backlash

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Monday, April 18, 2016

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A local authority is reviewing planned changes to early years funding following a backlash from childminders who fear they will have to stop offering the free entitlement.

Early years crucial to life chances strategy

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

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Plans set out in the Queen’s Speech to focus on improving life chances for disadvantaged families will not work unless the Government tackles child poverty, charities say.

Montessori seeks to resolve qualifications delay

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Representatives from the Montessori and Steiner awarding bodies are meeting with officials from the Children's Workforce Development Council and the Department for Education in London in the next few weeks to discuss the future of Montessori and Steiner qualifications.

250 Sure Start children's centres at risk of closure

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Around 250 children's centres are at risk of closing this year and up to a thousand have warned staff that they are at risk of redundancy, new research has found.

Cuts Watch: What's happening to children's centres around the country

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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What's happening to children's centres around the country

Councils to publish what they spend on children's centres, children's minister confirms

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Local authorities will have to publish information about how much money they are spending on children's centres as part of the Government's policy vision for Sure Start.

Cuts Watch: Hub and spoke plan for reduced centres

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Plans to cut 1.7m from children's centres in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham have been put out for consultation by the council.

Early years sector voices concern over Brexit

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Monday, June 27, 2016

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Leaders in the early years sector have been weighing up the cost to childcare policy of the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

Comedy explores the pre-school world

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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A playwright who owned her own nursery for 13 years has turned the stresses and strains of an Ofsted inspection into a comedy, where yoghurt is banned because of health and safety fears.

DfE takes on wider role in PM's reshuffle

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Thursday, July 14, 2016

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Newly appointed education secretary Justine Greening takes on an expanded government department, which will include responsibility for further education, higher education and skills.

Families on National Living Wage crippled by childcare costs

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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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Families with working parents on the National Living Wage do not enjoy a basic quality of life because of high childcare costs, a charity has warned.

SEN reforms target the under-threes

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Staff in early years settings are to work with health visitors to assess children's development before the age of three, under Government plans to identify children with special educational needs and support them as early as possible.

Equality in early childhood education highlighted in European study

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Thursday, March 9, 2017

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The case for all children to have equal access to early education is made in an EU-wide study.

Interview: Alison Garnham, Chief executive, Child Poverty Action Group

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Friday, March 2, 2012

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The Prime Minister is considering looking at wider ways of measuring child poverty that are not based on household income, but Downing Street says there are no plans to abandon child poverty targets.