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Charity campaign highlights 'invisible role' of kinship carers

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

| Nursery World

For every school or nursery in the UK, there are eight children being raised by grandparents, family or friends because their parents are unable to take care of them.

Reading charity and Lego join forces to encourage children's creativity

News

Thursday, November 23, 2017

| Nursery World

BookTrust has teamed up with Lego to provide 50,000 families with free books.

Helping kinship carers

Opinion

Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

We’re hearing more and more about the role grandparents are playing in children’s lives, but many are also full-time carers for their children, says Lucy Peake

Parents choose catching up on sleep over spending time with their children

News

Friday, October 27, 2017

| Nursery World

Just one in four UK parents are planning to spend the extra hour they gain when the clocks go back this weekend with their children, finds new research.

At least 1,000 children's centres have closed, claims report warning of 'tipping point'

News

Saturday, April 14, 2018

| Nursery World

A major report by the Sutton Trust claims that 1,000 Sure Start children’s centres have closed since 2009 - twice as many as Government figures show.

National Children's Day will celebrate childhood

News

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

| Nursery World

Held on 13 May, National Children’s Day UK 2018 will celebrate the 'magic' of childhood but also aims to highlight the pressures children face today.

Family learning courses struggle to recruit parents

News

Friday, May 4, 2018

| Nursery World

Offering parents family learning sessions to support their Reception child’s learning at home might improve literacy, but getting parents to turn up regularly is hard, according to a new study.

More parents want later start for summer-borns

News

Monday, May 21, 2018

| Nursery World

There has been a significant rise in the number of parents asking for their summer-born children to delay starting school.

Janet King: Additional childcare funding is welcome, but there's still long-term workforce challenges to solve

Opinion

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

| Nursery World

Despite early years taking centre stage at the Spring Budget, there’s still persistent recruitment and retention issues that must be addressed, explains Janet King, sector manager for Education and Childcare at training provider NCFE.

Disadvantaged children 'positively benefit' from 20 hours a week of early years education – research

News

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

| Nursery World

There are clear benefits for disadvantaged children spending up to 20 hours per week in early years provision, Sutton Trust study finds.

Thousands turn out for 'March of the Mummies' childcare protest

News

Monday, October 31, 2022

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The March of the Mummies attracted more than 15,000 people in 11 cities across the country to demand Government reform on childcare, parental leave and flexible working.

BookTrust names its best book to share with young children

News

Thursday, April 27, 2023

| Nursery World

‘Can you Tickle A Tiger’? has been named the best new book for sharing with young children by BookTrust.

More than 600,000 families claiming universal credit since pandemic

News

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

| Nursery World

At least 630,000 families were 'pushed' onto universal credit between November 2019 and 2022, reveals new analysis.

Call to increase paternity pay so families avoid money struggles – poll

News

Friday, June 9, 2023

| Nursery World

More than half of families struggle financially when dads/partners take paternity leave, according to new research by the TUC, which is calling for paternity pay to be increased to at least the national living wage rate.

Grieving animator pays tribute to son in film to help parents impacted by stillbirth

News

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

| Nursery World

A film is being launched by an animator and his wife in memory of their stillborn son to help other parents experiencing the same tragedy.

Parents on universal credit will be able to claim hundreds of pounds more for childcare

News

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

The amount parents can claim for childcare under universal credit is to rise by nearly 50 per cent from the end of next month.

Hundreds of thousands of babies to receive a free copy of 'Who's Hiding on the Farm?'

News

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Up to 580,000 babies are to receive a copy of Axel Scheffler’s ‘Who’s Hiding on the Farm’ under BookTrust’s flagship Bookstart Baby programme, which aims to get families reading to their children early on.

Child poverty 'ripping' through schools and taking staff away from their 'core' roles to help

News

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

| Nursery World

New survey findings suggest that child poverty is pushing schools to the ‘brink’, with staff being forced from their ‘core roles’ to deal with its impact.

Young children's understanding of language nearly back to pre-pandemic levels

News

Friday, December 1, 2023

| Nursery World

A new study suggests that young children’s understanding of language is nearly back to pre-pandemic norms, despite ‘added pressures on today’s families’.

Working families will be £1,300 worse off by the end of the decade

News

Monday, March 4, 2024

| Nursery World

New analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) suggests that the upcoming Budget on Wednesday risks keeping the UK economy on a course which would see household worse off by £1,300 a year, compared to the beginning of the decade (2021).

'Pandemic babies' found to have fewer allergies and infections

News

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

| Nursery World

Babies born during the Covid-19 pandemic have experienced lower rates of infection and fewer allergies, reveals new research.

One in five schools on the ‘frontline’ of supporting families with food poverty

News

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

| Nursery World

There are now more than 4,000 food banks running in schools in England, which equates to one in every five primary and secondary schools in the country, according to new research.

Report provides roadmap for 'a new era' of Sure Start

News

Friday, May 10, 2024

| Nursery World

Schools and nurseries should be put at the centre of a new updated model for Sure Start, according to a new report by think tank Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives.

Link between meeting early learning goals in EYFS and later school absence – research

News

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

| Nursery World

Children who do not meet the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) at the end of the EYFS are more than twice as likely to become persistently absent from school, according to a new study.

Two-thirds of parents of under-fives feel party manifestos don't go far enough in supporting families

News

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

| Nursery World

Two-thirds of families with young children say the political parties don’t do enough to support them and are not promising enough to tackle the cost of childcare, according to a new poll by More in Common.

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Charity campaign highlights 'invisible role' of kinship carers

Reading charity and Lego join forces to encourage children's creativity

Helping kinship carers

Parents choose catching up on sleep over spending time with their children

At least 1,000 children's centres have closed, claims report warning of 'tipping point'

National Children's Day will celebrate childhood

Family learning courses struggle to recruit parents

More parents want later start for summer-borns

Janet King: Additional childcare funding is welcome, but there's still long-term workforce challenges to solve

Disadvantaged children 'positively benefit' from 20 hours a week of early years education – research

Thousands turn out for 'March of the Mummies' childcare protest

BookTrust names its best book to share with young children

More than 600,000 families claiming universal credit since pandemic

Call to increase paternity pay so families avoid money struggles – poll

Grieving animator pays tribute to son in film to help parents impacted by stillbirth

Parents on universal credit will be able to claim hundreds of pounds more for childcare

Hundreds of thousands of babies to receive a free copy of 'Who's Hiding on the Farm?'

Child poverty 'ripping' through schools and taking staff away from their 'core' roles to help

Young children's understanding of language nearly back to pre-pandemic levels

Working families will be £1,300 worse off by the end of the decade

'Pandemic babies' found to have fewer allergies and infections

One in five schools on the ‘frontline’ of supporting families with food poverty

Report provides roadmap for 'a new era' of Sure Start

Link between meeting early learning goals in EYFS and later school absence – research

Two-thirds of parents of under-fives feel party manifestos don't go far enough in supporting families

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