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Survey highlights 'emerging crisis' in childhood

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

| Nursery World

Action for Children is calling on the Government to establish a National Childhood Strategy as findings from its survey suggest an ‘emerging crisis in modern childhoods'.

Interview - Dr Sharon Curtis, manager of Ellesmere Children’s Centre, Sheffield

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Monday, June 10, 2019

| Nursery World

The Children’s Centre has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund support for a new centre for children with emotional and behavioural needs

DfE launches campaign to raise awareness of 30 hours among low-income families

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Wednesday, June 5, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has released new resources aimed at encouraging less well-off parents to use 30-hour childcare.

Sure Start cut hospital visits for children in deprived areas

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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

| Nursery World

Sure Start children’s centres significantly reduced hospitalisations for children in poorer neighbourhoods and saved the NHS millions of pounds, new research has found.

Student art project highlights child poverty and calls for change

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

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De Montfort University students have urged Leicester to invest in the future of local children as part of their end of year event.

MPs call for funding rise of £3.1 bn for children's services

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Children’s services in England are ‘at breaking point’, MPs warn today.

Mental health spending leaves children facing postcode lottery

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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

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Investment in children’s mental health services has fallen in over a third of local areas in England, with wide variation across the country, according to the Children’s Commissioner for England.

Childcare costs rise by 3 per cent in a year

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Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

Coram Family and Childcare has called on the Government to do more to help parents access childcare, as costs continue to rise.

Tax-Free Childcare: only a fifth of predicted number of families sign up

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Monday, February 18, 2019

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New figures on the take-up of Tax-Free Childcare from HMRC show that just a fifth of the number of parents the Government expected to have signed up to Tax-Free Childcare have done so.

Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes

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Friday, February 15, 2019

| Nursery World

Children in the most deprived area of the country have seen a huge improvement in their outcomes at the end of the EYFS following a major programme of targeted Government investment.

Government dismisses MPs' call for national early intervention strategy

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Friday, February 8, 2019

| Nursery World

MPs have been left 'frustrated' by the Government's rejection of a new national early intervention strategy to tackle childhood adversity and trauma.

£600m underspend on tax-free childcare will be sent back to Treasury

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

| Nursery World

Labour analysis has revealed that projected government spending on tax-free childcare will be £600 million lower than expected in the next four years, due to low take-up of the scheme.

Campaigners unite to save day nurseries

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Monday, October 29, 2018

| Nursery World

Campaigners across the country are joining forces to fight the closure of council-run and community nurseries, with a rally in Salford on Saturday (27 October) uniting members of the Save Our Nurseries campaigns in Tower Hamlets, Salford and Nottingham.

Children’s centres facing cull nationwide

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Monday, October 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Fears are mounting that children’s centres are on the brink of extinction as the number under threat continues to rise.

Parents vow to fight on after council confirms nursery closures

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

| Nursery World

Campaigners fighting to save Tower Hamlets' remaining council-run day nurseries are joining forces with other groups fighting nursery closures across the country.