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Interview - Andrea Leadsom MP

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Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Andrea Leadsom MP for South Northamptonshire and founder of the Northamptonshire Parent Infant Partnership (NorPIP).

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centre staff in Wandsworth and Lewisham will be taught how to raise the issue of tackling childhood obesity with families, as part of a new programme commissioned by the NHS.

Welsh local authority introduces smoke-free play areas

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Children in Caerphilly can now enjoy smoke-free play areas, following a campaign by local young people against smoking in playgrounds.

Campaigners to draw up 'alternative' EYFS

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

A new group made up of academics and practitioners will draft an alternative early years curriculum, amid concerns that the review of the EYFS does not go far enough in reforming the current early years framework.

Babies are people

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

All peope have rights, so what about babies' rights? asks Penelope Leach Ph.D, C.Psychol, FBPsS

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

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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.

One in four babies in families with 'multiple risks' to development

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Monday, February 6, 2012

| Nursery World

More than a quarter of children in the UK are growing up in families with a number of difficulties, including financial hardship and parental depression, that are risking their cognitive and behavioural development, according to new research.

Interview - Jean Gross

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The outgoing communication champion, who this week published a final report.

Jean Gross: education and health should work together to support children's speech and language

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Monday, January 16, 2012

| Nursery World

Cuts across the country are a significant threat to vital speech and language services for children and young people, the outgoing communication champion has warned.

Parents asked for views on progress checks for two-year-olds

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Friday, November 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Parents of two-year-olds in England are being asked for their views on the development check, due to be introduced for children between two-and-a-half and three.

Children growing up 'disconnected from the natural world'

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Friday, November 18, 2011

| Nursery World

One in three children in London are missing out on a vital part of their childhood development, because the time they spend in green spaces is limited to just six visits to a natural place a year.

Charities share 1.2m for early intervention projects

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Three charities that work with pre-school children and their families will receive 400,000 each through the Impetus-Sutton Early Years initiative.

Summer-born children 'more likely to do worse' at school

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

| Nursery World

August born children are more likely to struggle academically and be unhappy at school, according to new research.

Stressed toddlers 'not ready for school'

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Monday, October 31, 2011

| Nursery World

Children who experience stress in their first years of life are less likely to be 'school ready', according to a new study.

Chair named for UK's biggest birth study

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

| Nursery World

The Birth Cohort study into the lives of 90,000 babies and children will be chaired by Professor Dame Janet Finch.

Open EYE launches network to 'save childhood'

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

| Nursery World

The group behind the book Too much, too soon? has set up a new campaign to protect childhood.

Signs of autism in children highlighted in new guidance from NICE

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Monday, October 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners could learn to recognise autism in children with the help of new guidance developed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

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

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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.

Wanted: First-time parents for film

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Monday, September 26, 2011

| Nursery World

The Fatherhood Institute is looking for first-time parents to feature in a film to explore the ways mums and dads interact with their babies.

Campaigners speak out against 'erosion of childhood'

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Monday, September 26, 2011

| Nursery World

More than 200 childhood experts are calling for action to protect children from the 'erosion of childhood' by commercial forces and modern technology, and for a play-based curriculum in nurseries and primary schools for children under six.

EYFS REVIEW - update on the timetable for the revised early years framework

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has confirmed that the final version of the revised EYFS will be published at the end of March or early April 2012.

Politicians 'misuse science to push own agenda'

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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.

Row over daycare stress claims

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Monday, September 12, 2011

| Nursery World

The debate about whether childcare raises stress levels in young children is in the spotlight again, following a research review by controversial psychologist Aric Sigman.

Gove promises action on 'educational underclass' starting with school readiness

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Education Secretary Michael Gove has stressed the Government's intention to take radical action 'to tackle the scandal of our educational underclass', talking of the need to ensure 'school readiness' for children who arrive in reception class 'unable to form letters or even hold a pencil'.

Interview - Sue Atkins, Parenting expert

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Sue Atkins talks to Sue Learner about parenting and discipline, in the wake of the riots that spread destruction through the streets of London and most of the major English cities.

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Interview - Andrea Leadsom MP

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

Welsh local authority introduces smoke-free play areas

Campaigners to draw up 'alternative' EYFS

Babies are people

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

One in four babies in families with 'multiple risks' to development

Interview - Jean Gross

Jean Gross: education and health should work together to support children's speech and language

Parents asked for views on progress checks for two-year-olds

Children growing up 'disconnected from the natural world'

Charities share 1.2m for early intervention projects

Summer-born children 'more likely to do worse' at school

Stressed toddlers 'not ready for school'

Chair named for UK's biggest birth study

Open EYE launches network to 'save childhood'

Signs of autism in children highlighted in new guidance from NICE

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

Wanted: First-time parents for film

Campaigners speak out against 'erosion of childhood'

EYFS REVIEW - update on the timetable for the revised early years framework

Politicians 'misuse science to push own agenda'

Row over daycare stress claims

Gove promises action on 'educational underclass' starting with school readiness

Interview - Sue Atkins, Parenting expert

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