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New EYFS guide to support children's development

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

| Nursery World

A truncated version of Development Matters has been published as new guidance for early years practitioners and inspectors to help them review children's development in the EYFS.

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

News

Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

Government rejects calls for more focus on play in new qualifications

News

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

Despite a call for more emphasis on play-based learning from many respondents to the consultation on Early Years Educator qualifications, the Government has not amended the criteria.

Scotland launches its first national play strategy

News

Monday, June 24, 2013

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has launched the country's first play strategy, which recognises the vital role of play to children's well-being and development.

Petition launched amid fears teaching assistant jobs could be slashed

News

Thursday, June 20, 2013

| Nursery World

A petition that urges the Education Secretary Michael Gove not to get rid of teaching assistants has gained more than 60,000 signatures.

Genes play a minimal role in how well children do at school

News

Friday, June 7, 2013

| Nursery World

The influence of genes on the reading ability of children is limited, claims research.

Are we betraying children?

News

Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

As a British Medical Association report on children and health reveals how UK outcomes are falling behind other developed nations, Sir Al Aynsley-Green calls on the sector to respond at a local level in order to drive change on a national scale.

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Opinion

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.

Interview: Professor Leon Feinstein

Other

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation's interim head of evidence, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Government funds 5m early education study

News

Thursday, April 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The first major early years research to begin since 1997 will look at the impact of free early education from the age of two on the development of thousands of children.

Union warns primary curriculum will 'turn out robots'

News

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The proposed primary national curriculum will hold back the progress of many children and label others as failures according to 102 individuals and organisations.

Cross-party support for Early Intervention Foundation launch

News

Monday, April 15, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation will be officially launched today by David Cameron.

'We cannot just borrow childcare policies from other countries'

Opinion

Monday, April 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Research shows that high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) improves children's life chances.

Eminent academics warn childcare reforms will lower quality

News

Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The Government's plans to reform childcare will lead to an unintended consequence of reducing quality, a group of eminent academics and experts in early years has warned.

Too few staff can lead to premature independence

Other

Thursday, March 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Dr Louise Emanuel explains why she believes that proposals to reduce ratios of staff to children could harm children's development

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

News

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

| Nursery World

Reforms to increase ratios to allow nursery staff and childminder to look after more children are at odds with Government policy to foster close one-to-one bonds with children, an early years expert will say today.

Sign up for the best advice and information on caring for two-year-olds

News

Friday, March 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Tickets are selling fast for Nursery World's Two-year-Olds: Policy and Practice conference on 19 April, which features a fantastic line-up of early years experts all ready to share their knowledge and experience.

Two-year-old pilot study finds high-quality settings make a difference

News

Thursday, March 7, 2013

| Nursery World

Five-year-olds who took part in the initial two-year-old pilot of free early education places did no better at school at the end of the Reception year than other children, a Government study has found.

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

News

Monday, March 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Children from low-income families should have more support in the early years to tackle their speech, language and communication needs says a cross-party group of MPs and peers.

Look to our past, not Europe

Opinion

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

We should remember past mistakes in early years policy when trying to move forward or our youngest children will be in inappropriate environments, say Karen Wickett and Dr Verity Campbell Barr, lecturers in Early Childhood Studies at Plymouth University

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New EYFS guide to support children's development

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

Government rejects calls for more focus on play in new qualifications

Scotland launches its first national play strategy

Petition launched amid fears teaching assistant jobs could be slashed

Genes play a minimal role in how well children do at school

Are we betraying children?

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Interview: Professor Leon Feinstein

Government funds 5m early education study

Union warns primary curriculum will 'turn out robots'

Cross-party support for Early Intervention Foundation launch

'We cannot just borrow childcare policies from other countries'

Eminent academics warn childcare reforms will lower quality

Too few staff can lead to premature independence

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

Sign up for the best advice and information on caring for two-year-olds

Two-year-old pilot study finds high-quality settings make a difference

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

Look to our past, not Europe

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