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Labour MPS call for integrated approach to overcome inequality

Thursday, August 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Labour politicians Dame Tessa Jowell and Ivan Lewis MP have called for a focus on early intervention among poverty-stricken children to be at the heart of the post-2015 framework for developing countries.

Babies can recognise social interaction at a few hours old

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

| Nursery World

New research shows that at just one-day old, babies can differentiate between social interactions such as playing 'peekaboo' and non-social movement such as an arm manipulating an object.

MPs and early years experts pledge support to make early years a worldwide priority

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

| Nursery World

A call to put early childhood development (ECD) at the heart of the United Nations' next global development goals has received cross-party support.

Fostering heads for crisis

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

| Nursery World

The care system is under unprecedented pressure because of the increasing number of children needing foster homes and a shortage of foster carers, a charity warns.

Taking folic acid during pregnancy could reduce the risk of autism

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Pregnant women could reduce their child's risk of autism by 40 per cent with the consumption of folic acid supplements according to recent research.

New resources to support families with personal budgets

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| Nursery World

KIDS, a charity for disabled children and young people, has launched a free suite of resources to support families in the move to personal budgets.

Use Eastenders to teach good parenting, professor tells MPs

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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

| Nursery World

Professor Edward Melhuish has suggested that good parenting behaviours could be demonstrated by Eastenders characters to teach families how to parent well.

National strategy recommends nurseries help parents safeguard homes

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

| Nursery World

Nurseries should help parents and carers make their homes safer to prevent injuries in under-fives, recommends a new national accident prevention strategy.

Call for children's screen time to be restricted to two hours a day

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Thursday, January 17, 2019

| Nursery World

Parents should restrict children's screen time, as report claims that by the age of eight the average child will have spent a year sitting in front of a screen.

Call for volunteers to join the 'play army'

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Do you have a favourite children's play area?

Childcare tax break for working parents on the cards, as coalition releases mid-term review

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Monday, January 7, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents could be able to claim up to 2,000 a year in tax breaks to help pay for nurseries and childminders, government sources have indicated.

Welfare bill will hit 7 million families

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Charities for families and disabled children have spoken out against the Government's plans to limit the rise to benefits and tax credits to 1 per cent, ahead of the second reading of the welfare bill in Parliament today.

Toddlers in the UK are the fussiest eaters in Europe, claims new research

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

| Nursery World

The first ever European Toddler Nutrition Index, commissioned by GrowingUpMilkInfo.com, examined the attitudes to diet and food of over 2,500 mothers with toddlers in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Italy.

Childminders want vouchers to reduce tax credit fraud

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

The National Childminding Association is proposing that the Government pay parents the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit in vouchers, which are only accepted by registered childcarers, in a bid to reduce fraud.

Book charity launches bedtime reading campaign

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Twenty-three minutes is the average time parents spend getting their baby to sleep at night, according to research by the BookTrust.

Parents 'well aware of EYFS', survey finds

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Almost all parents understand that children learn best through play and most have a good understanding of the EYFS, a survey of 284 Netmums users has found.

Pilot bids to help child witnesses of home abuse

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

A Plymouth-based children's centre and nursery is taking part in a pilot scheme aimed at helping families experiencing domestic abuse and reducing the impact it has on children.

Analysis: SEN Green Paper - The advent of parent power?

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Ambitious reforms for special needs support could be stymied by being launched in a time of budget cuts. Mary Evans hears about the issues.

In numbers

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Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Number of women who have left their jobs to look after their families since September 2010 - 32,000

In numbers: Paying nursery fees

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

How popular are different methods of fee payment in private nurseries?

More parents taking up pilot 30 hours than expected

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Monday, April 3, 2017

| Nursery World

The number of parents taking up the 30 hours under the early roll-out programme has exceeded Government expectation.

Nurseries could play a 'vital role' in advising parents on suitable apps for children

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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

| Nursery World

A new report recommends early years settings provide parents with guidance on the type of apps that support children’s learning.

Liz Attenborough to leave Talk to Your Baby

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

| Nursery World

Liz Attenborough, manager of the National Literacy Trust's Talk to Your Baby initiative, has announced that she will be leaving the role at the end of October, following this year's Talk to Your Baby conference.

Vetting and Barring scheme scrapped and CRB checks reduced

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Friday, February 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Only people who work regularly and intensively with young children or vulnerable adults will have to have Criminal Records Bureau checks, following a Government review of the Vetting and Barring scheme.

Cuts will increase pressure on families, former Sure Start chief warns

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Friday, May 13, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government's cuts to childcare benefits will lessen the impact of policies aimed at improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, a leading academic has warned.

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Labour MPS call for integrated approach to overcome inequality

Babies can recognise social interaction at a few hours old

MPs and early years experts pledge support to make early years a worldwide priority

Fostering heads for crisis

Taking folic acid during pregnancy could reduce the risk of autism

New resources to support families with personal budgets

Use Eastenders to teach good parenting, professor tells MPs

National strategy recommends nurseries help parents safeguard homes

Call for children's screen time to be restricted to two hours a day

Call for volunteers to join the 'play army'

Childcare tax break for working parents on the cards, as coalition releases mid-term review

Welfare bill will hit 7 million families

Toddlers in the UK are the fussiest eaters in Europe, claims new research

Childminders want vouchers to reduce tax credit fraud

Book charity launches bedtime reading campaign

Parents 'well aware of EYFS', survey finds

Pilot bids to help child witnesses of home abuse

Analysis: SEN Green Paper - The advent of parent power?

In numbers

In numbers: Paying nursery fees

More parents taking up pilot 30 hours than expected

Nurseries could play a 'vital role' in advising parents on suitable apps for children

Liz Attenborough to leave Talk to Your Baby

Vetting and Barring scheme scrapped and CRB checks reduced

Cuts will increase pressure on families, former Sure Start chief warns

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