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Nurseries in Wales struggling to survive - Welsh Tories pledge 30-hour childcare

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries in Wales are under threat, faced with inadequate funding rates that are the lowest in the UK, rising numbers of children starting school at three, and falling occupancy, according to the NDNA.

Editor's View: renewed focus on phonics

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

Formal early reading methods are about to get a tighter grip on young children.

Childminder groups question agency model

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Monday, April 18, 2016

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A local childminding association is building its membership nationally while the Government continues to push for childminders to use agencies.

Sats spelling test published in error

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has come under fire after details of the Key Stage 1 spelling test for seven-year-olds appeared online by mistake.

Exclusive: The Minister's view - Early intervention goals

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

| Nursery World

The Government has written to all local authorities confirming the funding they will receive to deliver frontline services, including details of the new Early Intervention Grant. I'd like to outline in more detail what the EIG means for early years services.

Growing children's nurseries market now worth £4.9bn

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

There was significant growth in the children's nurseries market last year, according to the 2014 report from market analysts LaingBuisson.

Study finds little lasting impact from free hours

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

| Nursery World

The £2bn a year free early years entitlement scheme has done little to boost education outcomes – because most children taking up the provision were already receiving childcare, a study has found.

30 hours childcare risks widening the gap in the early years

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Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Better-off families are set to benefit from 30 hour childcare at the expense of poorer families, warns a new analysis by think tank CentreForum.

SPPA releases election manifesto

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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The Scottish Pre-School Play Association has launched 'Enriching Children's Lives, a Manifesto for the Early Years' in the run-up to the Scottish parliamentary elections calling for more investment in services.

Ofsted chief appointment confirmed

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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

| Nursery World

Amanda Spielman will be Ofsted’s next chief inspector, the Government has confirmed.

Fears for early years review amid schools funding delay to 2018

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Sector leaders have responded with dismay at news that the roll out of the new schools national funding formula will be delayed by a year.

MPs call for children's centres to be re-branded as 'family hubs'

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Friday, July 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Children’s centres should be renamed and rebranded as family hubs as a one-stop shop of support to deliver the Government’s life chances policy, according to a cross-party group of MPs.

Councils join together to boost free childminder places

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

A new partnership between two London local authorities will raise the number of childminders offering free places for two-year-olds.

Grandparents look to Europe for work model

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

| Nursery World

The charity Grandparents Plus is to launch a major study of the value that European countries place on the role of grandparent carers.

Foundation Years: Government wants new 'covenant' with early years providers

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Monday, July 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Ministers are proposing a new way of working, building on the 'co-production' process, to draw up a 'covenant' between the early years sector, the DfE and local authorities.

'Five-a-day' parenting tips proposed

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Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

An independent liberal think-tank is calling for a national parenting campaign that applies the 'five-a-day' concept to advice on pre-school development.

Consultation on school funding includes early years

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Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Plans to change the way early education is funded are included in the Government's consultation on school funding reform.

Breakfast club wins award from Number Ten

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Charity-run breakfast club programme Magic Breakfast has won a Prime Minister's Big Society Award in recognition of its innovative work in supporting schools to provide a free healthy breakfast.

First providers of new EYPS revealed

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Some of the names of the providers that will offer the new programme of training for Early Years Professional Status have been confirmed.

Government announces new English Hubs to improve reception children's literacy

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

| Nursery World

A national network of English Hubs to improve children's early language and literacy are to be created by the Government.

Gove unveils plans for 79 more free schools

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Seventy-nine more state-funded free schools are due to open by September 2012, the Department for Education has confirmed.

Child health experts slam Government's obesity strategy

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has criticised the Government's new obesity strategy, which advises people in England to consume five billion fewer calories a day.

New standards for adoption to be introduced to speed up the process

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

| Nursery World

The Prime Minister has announced that the Government will be publishing a Green Paper setting out new minimum standards for local authorities on the number of adoptions and what happens to children in care.

Norgrove review: Divorced fathers will not have legal right to equal access

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Fathers and grandparents could be denied the right to see a child after divorce, under recommendations outlined in a Government report into the family justice system.

Campaign to highlight babies at risk of abuse

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

| Nursery World

One in four babies is at risk of abuse because they are born into homes where there is domestic violence, mental health problems or drink and drug dependency, according to a new report.

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Nurseries in Wales struggling to survive - Welsh Tories pledge 30-hour childcare

Editor's View: renewed focus on phonics

Childminder groups question agency model

Sats spelling test published in error

Exclusive: The Minister's view - Early intervention goals

Growing children's nurseries market now worth £4.9bn

Study finds little lasting impact from free hours

30 hours childcare risks widening the gap in the early years

SPPA releases election manifesto

Ofsted chief appointment confirmed

Fears for early years review amid schools funding delay to 2018

MPs call for children's centres to be re-branded as 'family hubs'

Councils join together to boost free childminder places

Grandparents look to Europe for work model

Foundation Years: Government wants new 'covenant' with early years providers

'Five-a-day' parenting tips proposed

Consultation on school funding includes early years

Breakfast club wins award from Number Ten

First providers of new EYPS revealed

Government announces new English Hubs to improve reception children's literacy

Gove unveils plans for 79 more free schools

Child health experts slam Government's obesity strategy

New standards for adoption to be introduced to speed up the process

Norgrove review: Divorced fathers will not have legal right to equal access

Campaign to highlight babies at risk of abuse

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