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Gateway to the Foundation Years

    News
  • Monday, July 18, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Anne Longfield, chief executive of 4Children, looks at the importance of early intervention and gives details of a new website for parents from pregnancy to when their children reach five years old.

Health and wellbeing study given 33.5m

    News
  • Tuesday, March 8, 2011
  • | Nursery World
A 33.5m project is to follow the lives of 90,000 British children from birth to find out more about what factors affect health and happiness in society.

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.

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

League tables loom for EYFS Profile results

    News
  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results are to be published by school for the first time, under proposals in the Department for Education's five-year business plan.

Communication champion seeks more emphasis on PSED

    News
  • Tuesday, October 12, 2010
  • | Nursery World
The review of the Early Years Foundation Stage might consider the option of an increased emphasis on personal, social and emotional development and communication and language, according to Communication Champion Jean Gross.

New early years social networking site

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A social networking website called the Unique Child Network has been launched by early years specialist Wendy Ellyatt, who said it focuses on 'the vital importance of the early years and the need to protect the rights of each child as a joyful and uniquely predisposed learner'.

Speech year is in jeopardy

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  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Concerns have been raised that the National Year of Speech, Language and Communication, which is due to take place in 2011, could be axed after the Government refused to make a commitment to funding the initiative.

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