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Families with disabled children fear missing out on 30-hours

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

| Nursery World

Government plans to double free childcare ‘won’t go far enough’ to help families with disabled children access childcare, a group of charities has warned.

Social exclusion

Opinion

Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

How can we exclude children before they've even reached the statutory age for education?, asks Sue Cowley

Nursery Management: Equality - Finding balance

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

A Christian nursery worker sacked for comments about homosexuality recently won a case against her employer. So are equality and discrimination mutually exclusive? Katy Morton finds out.

Nursery Management: Poverty - Destined for failure?

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners know that part of their job is reducing the disadvantage gap. But what do they really think of poor children? Dr Donald Simpson, who has led a two-year study into practitioners'perceptions of poverty, reports.

'Postcode lottery' for SEND children in early years

News

Monday, February 23, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years providers across the country are facing a 'postcode lottery' with local authority funding for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in their care.

More cash to help bring in new SEND reforms

News

Friday, December 19, 2014

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The Department for Education is giving an extra £31.7m to help local authorities implement special needs reforms.

Call for rethink to education systems which marginalise children

News

Thursday, July 17, 2014

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Expert-led education can ‘marginalise children’ and sometimes lead to ‘oppression and racism’ an academic has warned.

Parliamentary inquiry highlights childcare crisis for disabled children

News

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

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Four in ten parents of disabled three- and four-year-olds are unable to access their right to 15-hours of childcare, an investigation has found.

Early years key time for new SEN plans, says minister

News

Thursday, June 19, 2014

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Reforms aimed at improving access to services for special needs children have been called the ‘biggest challenge of our generation’ by the minister introducing them.

Guidance issued for SEN and disability reforms in autumn

News

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has issued guidance on special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities reforms that will come into force from September.

Protestors challenge schools minister over inclusion in children and families bill

News

Friday, December 20, 2013

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The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) is lobbying schools minister Lord Nash to change the wording of the Special Educational Needs (SEN) reforms in the children and families bill.

A magazine is not a broken iPad!

Opinion

Friday, October 11, 2013

| Nursery World

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

All in all ... the pupil premium

Opinion

Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

Dr Katherine Runswick-Cole is a senior research fellow in disability studies and psychology, at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University.