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Childcare Commission - the Government wants your ideas

Friday, July 20, 2012

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The Government is calling on early years and childcare providers, parents and others to put forward their ideas about how to make childcare more affordable and accessible.

Fathers urged to talk to their babies

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Monday, July 23, 2012

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Babies whose fathers engage positively with them at three months old have fewer behavioural problems at the age of one, finds a new study.

Teachers to take industrial action

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Monday, September 10, 2012

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The two largest teaching unions have voted in favour of joint industrial action over planned changes to pay and conditions, workload and pensions.

Continuing struggle for parents to find a 30 hours place

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Friday, April 13, 2018

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The latest DfE figures on 30-hour codes for the summer term show 50,000 parents who have been issued a code have not had it validated, suggesting an increasing struggle to find a childcare place.

Families need an income of 30,000 a year to survive

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

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British families need to earn over 30,000 a year to pay basic living expenses, according to a new report.

Universal pre-school education leads to greater educational equality, study claims

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Monday, December 10, 2012

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The UK's school system would rank higher in international league tables if the universal entitlement to free nursery places had been set up in the 1990s, new research suggests.

Lone parents worse off under Universal Credit, warns Barnardo's

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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Under the Universal Credit, lone parent families will gain nothing from working more hours and in some cases could be worse off after having to pay for additional childcare and seeing their benefits reduced and tax increased, reveals a new report.

'Get Dads in!', nurseries urged in run-up to Fathers' Day

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Friday, June 17, 2011

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Two out of three fathers believe the general public don't trust men to care for babies as much as they do women, a new survey has revealed.

Foundation Years: Parents' website launched to give advice in the early years

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Monday, July 18, 2011

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A new website developed by 4Children, in partnership with the Government, aims to provide information for parents from pregnancy and the first five years of a child's life.

Study reveals low take-up of Government-funded parenting classes

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Friday, March 22, 2013

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At the same time as the Government announced the names of the organisations chosen to oversee the next round of CANparent classes, an evaluation of the scheme has revealed that just two per cent of parents in the pilot areas signed up for the parenting classes.

Interview - Professor Kathy Sylva

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Monday, July 11, 2011

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Professor Kathy Sylva, Department of Education, University of Oxford is one of the leaders of the evaluation of children's centres in England, with NatCen and Frontier Economics.

Early end to subsidised childcare tax credits scheme costs parents dear

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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Parents on a pilot scheme to help lower-income families with their childcare costs have been told they will have to pay back 500 because the pilot is ending in September, nine months earlier than planned.