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Mothers show their voting hand

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  • Tuesday, March 30, 2010
    • | Nursery World
More than two-thirds of mothers would be less likely to vote for a party that cuts free childcare places or tax credits, according to a survey by the Daycare Trust.

Sure Start innovates in rural outreach

    News
  • Tuesday, March 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Play vans, fire stations and a children's centre on a military base are among the measures being used by West Northumberland Sure Start to improve outreach services in rural areas.

Think tank warns of 'nursery NEETs'

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
More than one in ten five-year-olds are at risk of disengaging from education when they start school, according to a new report.

Councils given new advice on play provision

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A website to help local authorities create child-friendly communities in areas such as planning, designing and policing has been launched by Play England and SkillsActive.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children's communications skills will be the focus of a 'National Year' campaign in 2011 spearheaded by the Communication Trust, a 38-strong consortium of private and voluntary sector providers, set up by Afasic, BT Better World Campaign, the Council for Disabled Children and I CAN.

Training for engaging with men

    News
  • Monday, March 1, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Fathers Plus offers a range of training programmes designed to help those working in children's services engage more effectively with men.

Fathers' rights campaign launched

    News
  • Tuesday, February 23, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A month-long campaign called Dads at Work, by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and supported by the DCSF, aims to make fathers more aware of their rights. Posters and leaflets will be distributed to antenatal clinics and GP surgeries.

Vocabulary of poorer children 'lags a year behind'

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  • Tuesday, February 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children growing up in the poorest families are almost a year behind middle-income families in their vocabulary levels by the time they start school, according to research commissioned by educational charity the Sutton Trust.

Engaging fathers

    News
  • Tuesday, February 9, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Most fathers are 'good enough' but some still need more help, says a study by the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners.

Childcare voucher users profiled

    News
  • Tuesday, February 9, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Eight out of ten users of childcare vouchers are basic-rate taxpayers representing all occupational and socio-economic groups, says a report by the Social Market Foundation. Vouchers are used more by lone parents than couples and manual and unskilled workers use them the most. The report comes after the Labour party abandoned plans to end childcare vouchers.

Pre-schools forced to pull out of free entitlement

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  • Tuesday, February 9, 2010
    • | Nursery World
More than 1,000 funded places for three- and four-year-olds in Buckinghamshire could be lost because a group of pre-schools say they cannot remain sustainable without more funding when the free entitlement is extended to 15 hours in September.

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