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Children's commissioner launches manifesto for children's life chances

Saturday, September 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The Children’s Commissioner for England has launched a children’s manifesto aiming to transform young people’s life chances.

Proposed EYFS changes ‘not supported by evidence’

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Monday, September 16, 2019

| Nursery World

New research reveals there is little support among the sector or evidence for making extensive changes to the current Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.

Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’

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Monday, January 1, 0001

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have warned that the plans to increase the minimum wage to £10.50 an hour, announced by the Chancellor yesterday, will lead to more nursery closures.

Calls to follow Scotland's lead on smacking

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Monday, October 14, 2019

| Nursery World

Charities and the Children's Commissioner for England are calling for smacking to be criminalised in England following the move in Scotland to ban the form of discipline.

Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

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Thursday, November 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The annual cost of providing childcare has risen by 20 per cent since last year, new Department for Education figures reveal.

Call for Government to clarify advice around sunscreen in nurseries

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

| Nursery World

The British Skin Foundation has launched a petition calling for a standardised sunscreen policy in nurseries and primary schools to stop children getting sunburnt.

Long-term effect of poverty on children's development revealed

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

| Nursery World

New research has established a link between persistent poverty and a negative impact on children's cognitive development.

Lone parents told to prepare for work when child is three

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Monday, June 25, 2012

| Nursery World

Encouraging lone parents not in employment to prepare for work when their child turns three years old is just one measure being considered by the Government as part of a larger debate on welfare reform.

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

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Monday, July 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Male reading volunteers in schools and parenting programmes that focus on fathers are among the recommendations of a major report into how to tackle the gap between boys and girls in reading.

Increase in under-fives diagnosed with SEN

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Monday, July 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The number of pre-school children with statements of special educational needs has risen in the past four years, according to new Government figures.

Parents struggling to get 30-hour codes validated

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Thursday, March 15, 2018

| Nursery World

A breakdown of the latest DfE statistics on take-up of the 30 hours by local authority show 63 out of 153 councils validated fewer codes than the national average (93 per cent)

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

| Nursery World

Two HMRC nurseries in Wales and Scotland threatened with closure could stay open for another three years.

Funding scheme launched for parents campaigning against cuts to children's centres

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Friday, January 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Daycare Trust and Unison have joined forces to provide grants to support parents and staff campaigning to save their local Sure Start children's centres from closure.

PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities

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Thursday, December 7, 2017

| Nursery World

During Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) this week, Theresa May said nursery owners had told her that some local authorities are operating the 30 hours 'system' well, while others are not.

Education committee finds care system failing foster children

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Friday, December 22, 2017

| Nursery World

MPs have called on the Government to conduct a fundamental review of the whole care system.

Government scraps early years expansion fund

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Thursday, January 4, 2018

| Nursery World

The early years investment fund, which was due to provide cheap money to enable settings to expand, has been quietly jettisoned, Nursery World has learned.

Three London councils merge to cut costs

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

| Nursery World

Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea councils are to merge services from February 2011, generating savings of between 50m and 100m a year.

School dinners 'not value for money'

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

| Nursery World

Three in ten teachers believe the price of meals in their school do not represent value for money, according to a new survey.

Childbase employee-ownership report gets ministerial backing

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

| Nursery World

Nursery group Childbase Partnership has received support from government ministers for its call for more employee ownership in UK businesses.

Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

| Nursery World

More than 1,700 academics, Reception and nursery teachers, early years practitioners, parents, headteachers, union leaders, and MPs have signed a letter expressing concern about Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report.

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Head teachers have threatened to put an end to the phonics reading check for all six-year-olds, if it is seen to be politically motivated and used as a weapon to attack teachers.

Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Campaigners against cuts to children's centres will march on Downing Street to hand a letter to the Prime Minister demanding more funding to save early years services.

Child-related benefits may be capped for families with more than two children, says Iain Duncan Smith

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

| Nursery World

Poorer families could lose their entitlement to extra support if they decide to have more children, the work and pensions secretary has said.

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

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Friday, November 30, 2012

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association has won ten contracts to support 62 local authorities in England with the rollout of free early education places for disadvantaged two-year-olds

One in five teachers has given food to hungry pupils, a survey suggests

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

| Nursery World

Large numbers of pupils in London are starting the day without breakfast, a survey claims.

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Children's commissioner launches manifesto for children's life chances

Proposed EYFS changes ‘not supported by evidence’

Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’

Calls to follow Scotland's lead on smacking

Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

Call for Government to clarify advice around sunscreen in nurseries

Long-term effect of poverty on children's development revealed

Lone parents told to prepare for work when child is three

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

Increase in under-fives diagnosed with SEN

Parents struggling to get 30-hour codes validated

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

Funding scheme launched for parents campaigning against cuts to children's centres

PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities

Education committee finds care system failing foster children

Government scraps early years expansion fund

Three London councils merge to cut costs

School dinners 'not value for money'

Childbase employee-ownership report gets ministerial backing

Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres

Child-related benefits may be capped for families with more than two children, says Iain Duncan Smith

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

One in five teachers has given food to hungry pupils, a survey suggests

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