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Wide variation in social care across England putting children at risk

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

| Nursery World

MPs and peers are calling for urgent action after a parliamentary inquiry finds that vulnerable children are missing out on early help and face a postcode lottery of support.

Campaigners win ruling on junk food ads

News

Friday, July 6, 2018

| Nursery World

Health campaigners have called for tougher restrictions on online adverts for unhealthy food aimed at children, after their complaints against confectionery brands were upheld.

DfE considering response to Bercow: 10 Years On

News

Thursday, July 5, 2018

| Nursery World

A petition calling for the Government to implement the Bercow: Ten Years On review has reached 10,000 signatures, prompting a response from the Government.

Government renews call for parents to sign up for Tax-Free Childcare

News

Thursday, June 28, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has resumed a drive to encourage parents to sign up for Tax-Free Childcare to pay for holiday clubs during the school summer holidays.

Universal Credit, Part 6: Options for Reforms - Making UC work

Features

Monday, June 25, 2018

| Nursery World

David Finch of Resolution Foundation pinpoints how problems with Universal Credit can be resolved so that it can achieve its aims of raising incomes and simplifying the system

From our archives: on the letters page

Features

Friday, June 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Correspondence from early editions of Nursery World shines a light on the evolution of attitudes about childcare in society.

Researchers to study effect of indoor air pollution on children

News

Thursday, June 21, 2018

| Nursery World

The adverse effects of indoor air pollution on children in the UK are to be investigated for the first time.

Call for junk food ads to be banned from on-demand services

News

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Health campaigners want junk food advertising restricted on TV, as well as on-demand services, to protect young children from obesity.

Damning report highlights major problems with universal credit

News

Friday, June 15, 2018

| Nursery World

The government spending watchdog warns universal credit is pushing claimants into rent arrears, and urges ministers to fix the system before rolling it out nationally.

Use Eastenders to teach good parenting, professor tells MPs

News

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.

Millions of children missing out on support

News

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Half of the £8.6bn children’s services budget in England is currently being spent on just 73,000 children, meaning millions go without support, the Children’s Commissioner has warned.

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

News

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have delayed access to funded early years education, new research from the LSE suggests.

EYFS best practice - All about… home education

Features

Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children being home educated is rising, and the Government wants to give councils more power to monitor them. Meredith Jones Russell reports

Don't blame early years providers for children arriving at school in nappies

Opinion

Friday, June 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Are more four-year-olds really starting Reception without being toilet trained, asks Alison Featherbe, and where does the fault lie?

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

News

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children in the last year of primary school severely obese is almost double that of those in Reception, according to a new analysis by the Local Government Association.

New £50m fund to create extra places and facilities for children with SEND

News

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

| Nursery World

Local authorities will be able to access Government funding to improve facilities and create more school places for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities.