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Children's commissioner highlights 'protective shield' of family life

Thursday, September 1, 2022

| Nursery World

The children’s commissioner for England is calling on the next prime minister to put family at the centre of policymaking.

Working parents need flexible, fully-funded 30-hour offer

News

Monday, June 8, 2015

| Nursery World

The plan to double free childcare for working parents must be properly funded or risks making life more difficult for them, Citizens Advice says.

Tax-Free Childcare delayed until 2017

News

Thursday, July 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Tax-free childcare (TFC) has been delayed until early 2017, following a legal challenge from the childcare voucher provider companies.

Economists highlight poverty in working families

News

Thursday, July 16, 2015

| Nursery World

Most poor children live in working households, according to a new analysis of official Government statistics.

Local authorities urged to tackle child poverty in the early years

News

Monday, July 20, 2015

| Nursery World

England's children’s commissioner is calling for a focus on early intervention and investment to cut poverty for pre-school children.

Lords call for redistribution of early years funding

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of peers is calling for fairer funding for PVI settings and for spending to be targeted at disadvantaged children who benefit the most.

Inquiry into early years intervention and life chances gets mixed reaction

News

Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

A joint inquiry into the role early years intervention plays in shaping lives has been launched to inform the Government’s life chances strategy.

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have delayed access to funded early years education, new research from the LSE suggests.

Funded early education hours not enough to 'narrow the gap'

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

| Nursery World

Parents with young children who work 20 hours a week or more should be entitled to up to 25 hours a week of free early education, a think tank has proposed.

Troubled Families programme to expand focus to under-fives

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government’s Troubled Families programme is to be expanded to help an additional 400,000 families, including those with children under five.

The parent trap

Opinion

Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

We need a shift in the mindset of employers in the UK, so that flexible working is seen as the norm, not the exception, argues Sarah Jackson

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

News

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children in the last year of primary school severely obese is almost double that of those in Reception, according to a new analysis by the Local Government Association.

'Alarming' rise in child poverty forecast

News

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The number of children living in absolute poverty will increase by 600,000 between 2010 and 2015 according to analysis by the Child Poverty Action Group.

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

News

Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a £2m pilot to look at ways to support disadvantaged children during the school holidays by providing meals and activities.

Better-off families gain £300 a month more than poor families from Government childcare policies

News

Monday, April 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Families on low-incomes and lone- parent families benefit less than better-off families from the 30-hours and Tax-Free Childcare, according to a new analysis.

£600m underspend as parents shun Tax-Free Childcare

News

Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Just a fraction of families eligible for Tax-Free Childcare are using it, Nursery World can reveal.

New research highlights a catalogue of issues with universal credit

News

Friday, July 19, 2019

| Nursery World

Universal Credit claimants are being blocked from challenging the Government when they suspect mistakes in their claim.

MPs call for 'radical' change' in failing SEND system

News

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

| Nursery World

MPs have published a damning report into the special educational needs system, accusing the Government of failing a generation of children and young people.

Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

News

Friday, January 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Children living in the poorest areas are less likely to attend formal childcare settings and their parents are less aware of the free entitlement, according to new DfE statistics.

Government urged to 're-think' its Tax-Free Childcare scheme as take-up remains low

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

| Nursery World

Less than one in six eligible families are using the Government’s Tax-Free Childcare scheme, reveal new figures.

SEND campaigers to hand the Prime Minister an invoice for £12m

News

Thursday, February 27, 2020

| Nursery World

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) campaigners are to march on Downing Street tomorrow with an invoice for Boris Johnson for £12 million – the amount required to plug the SEND funding crisis in Tower Hamlets.

Government funds £8m Covid-19 adoption support scheme to help families

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

| Nursery World

Adoptive families will be offered online counselling and couples therapy in an £8m scheme from the Government to support them during the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus: First figures show 65,000 children going to early years settings

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Around 65,000 children are currently attending early years settings, according to Department for Education research – about four per cent of the number who usually attend in term time.

9 in 10 parents do not want children to go back to school as soon as lockdown ends

News

Thursday, May 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Ninety per cent of parents do not want to see their children return to school immediately after the UK Government ends lockdown, according to a new survey.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

| Nursery World

Parents returning to work in the wake of the lockdown may struggle to find childcare places, as a new report reveals the impact of the pandemic on nurseries, pre-schools and childminders.

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Children's commissioner highlights 'protective shield' of family life

Working parents need flexible, fully-funded 30-hour offer

Tax-Free Childcare delayed until 2017

Economists highlight poverty in working families

Local authorities urged to tackle child poverty in the early years

Lords call for redistribution of early years funding

Inquiry into early years intervention and life chances gets mixed reaction

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

Funded early education hours not enough to 'narrow the gap'

Troubled Families programme to expand focus to under-fives

The parent trap

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

'Alarming' rise in child poverty forecast

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

Better-off families gain £300 a month more than poor families from Government childcare policies

£600m underspend as parents shun Tax-Free Childcare

New research highlights a catalogue of issues with universal credit

MPs call for 'radical' change' in failing SEND system

Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

Government urged to 're-think' its Tax-Free Childcare scheme as take-up remains low

SEND campaigers to hand the Prime Minister an invoice for £12m

Government funds £8m Covid-19 adoption support scheme to help families

Coronavirus: First figures show 65,000 children going to early years settings

9 in 10 parents do not want children to go back to school as soon as lockdown ends

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

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