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Early years 'failing' children at maths

News

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners are ‘failing’ young children over maths skills, a campaign group has said.

Turning on the light

Opinion

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

Camila Batmanghelidjh calls for a revolution in caring for vulnerable children.

Arts campaigners condemn school cuts

News

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

The abolition of a flagship programme designed to foster creativity in children has been condemned by teachers and ambassadors of the arts as threatening the education of the most vulnerable children.

Politicians 'misuse science to push own agenda'

News

Monday, September 19, 2011

| Nursery World

The extent to which studies of infant brain development have been misinterpreted and exploited by politicians to push a political agenda on to parenting were debated at a conference at Kent University.

Experts and academics speak out against the 'erosion of childhood'

News

Monday, October 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Leading neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield has spoken out about her concerns about the impact of screen technologies on young children's development.

Children's 'red books' start to go online from April

News

Monday, February 13, 2017

| Nursery World

The ‘red book’, the paper-based personal child health record for under-fives, will be available online for London parents from April ahead of a national rollout.

Government urged to rethink school starting age

News

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

| Nursery World

Educational experts are urging the Government to rethink the age at which children start school, to close the gap between summer-born children and older peers.

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

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Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Measures of children’s progress – especially one-off assessments such as the baseline in Reception – are flawed, meaning neither policy-makers nor children benefit, say Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts-Holmes

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

News

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The NSPCC is calling for babies' rights to be better protected under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), as part of its 'All Babies Count' campaign.