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EYFS Best Practice: All about… air pollution

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Monday, June 12, 2017

| Nursery World

What can settings do to protect their children from increasing air pollution, asks Charlotte Goddard

International study calls for more early years funding to close the gap

News

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| Nursery World

The OECD has welcomed the expansion of 30 hours of funded childcare but urged governments to do more to improve access to quality provision for disadvantaged children.

Early years funding fails to keep pace with inflation

News

Friday, June 16, 2017

| Nursery World

More than a quarter of local authorities’ early years funding rates have seen real-terms cuts over the past five years, Pre-school Learning Alliance research reveals.

Take twos...expanding with creative thinking

Features

Friday, August 31, 2012

| Nursery World

Providing new places for two-year-olds does not always have to involve huge or even any capital investment.

Analysis: Political parties tell us their childcare priorities

News

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

| Nursery World

With just one week to go before the General Election, we assess the mood of the early years sector and ask the three main political parties to explain their policies

Poverty to come under review

News

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead, is to lead an independent review into poverty.

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

News

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

| Nursery World

Loopholes in Ofsted's Voluntary Childcare Register (VCR) mean that the inspectorate is approving nannies with inadequate documentation who in some cases do not even have the right to work in the UK, childcare agencies have warned.

Labour promises £500m to reverse Sure Start cuts

News

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

| Nursery World

A Labour Government would bring in a ring-fenced grant of £500m a year for children’s centres and offer universal early education for two-to four-year-olds.

Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

News

Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s decision to bring back a baseline assessment in Reception, just two years after it was forced to scrap the previous attempt, is a controversial one (see Analysis, page 14).

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

News

Thursday, September 29, 2011

| Nursery World

More nurseries made a loss last year than in the previous ten years, according to a Government-commissioned survey.

Open EYE launches network to 'save childhood'

News

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

| Nursery World

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

Tax on chocolate and fizzy drinks proposed by anti-obesity campaigner

News

Thursday, October 6, 2011

| Nursery World

Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum has suggested that a tax on sugar should be introduced, following the Prime Minister's decision to consider placing a surcharge on fatty foods to tackle Britain's growing obesity levels.

Families struggle, as cost of food soars

News

Thursday, October 13, 2011

| Nursery World

One in six parents in the UK has gone without a meal so that they can put food on the table for their family, according to new research.

Thousands of parents unable to access a 30-hour place

News

Thursday, October 12, 2017

| Nursery World

More than 21,000 codes issued to parents for the 30 hours by the end of August have still not been validated by providers or local authorities.

Interview - Professor Sonia Blandford

Other

Monday, October 16, 2017

| Nursery World

Chief executive, Achievement for All and author of a new book, Born to Fail? Social Mobility: A Working Class View, which draws on her personal experiences.

Parents of disabled children face childcare crisis

News

Friday, October 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Parents of disabled children struggle to find suitable childcare for their children in the holidays, a survey reveals.

Government launches Professor Cathy Nutbrown review of early education and childcare qualifications

News

Friday, October 28, 2011

| Nursery World

The early education and childcare qualifications review launched today aims to strengthen the training, qualifications and career opportunities for all thsoe working in the sector.

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

News

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

| Nursery World

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

Childcare ministers forced to resign over allegations

News

Monday, November 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Childcare ministers in Scotland and Wales have been forced to resign amid allegations about their past behaviour.

Free books scheme for under-fives extends to all areas

News

Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

The Scottish Book Trust's early years book gifting programme has received an additional 450,000, bringing the total amount of funding for the scheme to 1.5m until 2013.

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

News

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government should invest in early years services to help fight child poverty, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility said in a speech yesterday.

EYFS REVIEW: children's minister announces further consultation

News

Thursday, December 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's minister Sarah Teather has confirmed that a further short consultation on the EYFS will be launched shortly.

Map shows East London 'worst area for child poverty'

News

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

| Nursery World

Tower Hamlets in East London has the highest rate of child poverty in the UK with more than half (52 per cent) of all children below the poverty line, the End Child Poverty Campaign claims.

Budget 2010: child tax credits to rise

News

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

| Nursery World

The Government has announced plans to increase child tax credits by 4 a week for parents of one- and two-year -olds from 2012 in today's budget.

HR Update - Extending paternity leave

Features

Friday, September 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Over the past ten years, there have been many changes in employment law relating to working parents, and in April 2011 additional paternity leave and pay was introduced. Jacqui Mann reports that HR4 Nurseries has not seen a huge increase in requests for additional paternity leave, but says it is important that employers understand the key areas

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