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Creative thinking is hugely undervalued in our society - but we must learn to think beyond the status quo, says Philip Bujak, recently retired chief executive of the Montessori St Nicholas Charity.

A vision for post-2015

Opinion

Monday, August 11, 2014

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Dame Tessa Jowell calls for renewed efforts on international commitments to early childhood development

Councils pilot £2m fund for adopted children

News

Monday, June 30, 2014

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Ten local authorities have been chosen to pilot the Government's new Adoption Support Fund.

Truss to revisit role of children's centres

News

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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The education and childcare minister has agreed to look again at the core purpose of Sure Start children’s centres.

New institute launches to connect childcare experts across the world

News

Monday, June 16, 2014

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A new institute to drive the improvement of learning and care for babies, toddlers and young children has launched today.

Charity calls for action to reduce attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest children

News

Thursday, May 8, 2014

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A new report calls for more focused interventions to close the attainment gap between children from high and low-income households.

Human development and the early years

Opinion

Friday, April 25, 2014

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Over the past 18 months, we have been pitched into a situation where we seem to constantly swim against a relentless tide of inappropriate policy ‘initiatives’.

A question of trust

Opinion

Thursday, February 13, 2014

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Current early years policies betray a lack of understanding of very young children's needs, argues Pre-School Learning Alliance chief executive Neil Leitch

Tests in Reception branded 'a waste of time and money'

News

Monday, February 3, 2014

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Early years experts have criticised the Government’s plans to introduce formal “baseline” testing for children at the start of Reception, after press reports at the weekend revealed that the tests will start in 2016.

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

News

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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The education secretary’s insistence that children should be taught to read using synthetic phonics is almost ‘a form of abuse’, a leading academic claims.

MPs and early years experts pledge support to make early years a worldwide priority

News

Thursday, November 7, 2013

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A call to put early childhood development (ECD) at the heart of the United Nations' next global development goals has received cross-party support.

'Can't' rather than 'can do'?

Opinion

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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Early Learning Consultancy's Helen Moylett and Nancy Stewart argue why children have been set up to fail by the new Early Learning Goals

Development of 5,000 two-year-olds tracked as part of Government-funded study

News

Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Research interviews began last week with families taking part in one of the largest ever Government-funded studies into early years education.

Nursery Food: Overview - Food for thought

Features

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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With under-fives missing some of the basic health standards, Gabriella Jozwiak takes a look at what is being done to improve nutrition in the early years.

A magazine is not a broken iPad!

Opinion

Friday, October 11, 2013

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Children's radio campaigner Susan Stranks warns that the BBC could exclude some children with its focus on new technology

Why young children are too young to fail

Opinion

Thursday, October 3, 2013

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Wendy Ellyat says the Government response to 'Too Much Too Young' is inadequate and issues an invitation to join the campaign

Early years experts join forces over later school start

News

Thursday, September 12, 2013

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A focus on 'school readiness', testing at an ever-earlier age, and the downgrading of play threaten 'profound damage' to a generation of children, a group of experts warns today.