Interview: Professor Andy Dickerson and Dr Gurleen Popli The University of Sheffield
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- Friday, June 22, 2012 | Nursery World
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Consultation launched on eligibility for free places
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- Friday, July 6, 2012 | Nursery World
The Department for Education has launched a consultation asking for views on the criteria that local authorities should use for assessing parents' entitlement to free early education for two-year-old children.
Tories promise funding for schools to open nurseries
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- Thursday, May 18, 2017 | Nursery World
The Conservatives have pledged to provide immediate funding for primary schools to develop nurseries where they currently don’t have facilities to provide one.
Cost of Tory free breakfast plans 'could treble'
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- Thursday, May 25, 2017 | Nursery World
The Conservative manifesto pledge of free breakfasts for all primary school children could cost triple the £60m allocated for it, according to education researchers.
Review calls for crackdown on pornographic images to protect children
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- Friday, February 26, 2010 | Nursery World
Children should be taught 'digital literacy' from the age of five, a new Home Office-commissioned report into the sexualisation of children recommends today.
Conference to tackle gender imbalance in early years workforce
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- Wednesday, July 5, 2017 | Nursery World
A conference on engaging men in the early years will be held at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford later this month.
Labour calls on sector to take part in 30-hours survey
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- Thursday, July 13, 2017 | Nursery World
Labour’s shadow early years minister wants to hear from childcare providers and practitioners about their opinions on the 30 hours.
Extra £1.3bn for schools no long-term solution to funding crisis, say teachers
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- Tuesday, July 18, 2017 | Nursery World
Teaching unions have dismissed the £1.3 billion earmarked for schools by the education secretary as ‘smoke and mirrors’ and insufficient to make up losses.
Virgin Care to run Essex children's services with Barnardo's
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- Wednesday, December 21, 2016 | Nursery World
Essex County Council has awarded a seven-year contract to Virgin Care, in partnership with Barnardo’s, to run children’s centres and child health services.
Early years should focus on needs of different ethnic groups to boost social mobility
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- Wednesday, January 4, 2017 | Nursery World
The DfE should fund support for home learning for poor parents and those from ethnic groups that do less well in the EYFS, the Social Mobility Commission recommends.
Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow
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- Wednesday, January 25, 2017 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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 | Nursery World
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.
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