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The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.

'More Great Childcare': a guide to the key points

Monday, January 28, 2013

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The long-awaited Government response to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's review of early education and childcare qualifications goes further than responses to her recommendations.

Steiner Waldorf schools win victory on EYFS exemptions

Friday, January 25, 2013

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Steiner kindergartens have been successful in achieving exemptions from those aspects of the Early Learning Goals in the EYFS that do not fit with the Steiner educational philosophy and ethos. The ruling applies to all Steiner settings.

Parents win deferred school entry for daughter

Friday, January 11, 2013

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Parents of an August-born child have won a two-and-a-half year fight to defer her school entry until after her fifth birthday.

Private schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

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Independent schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS from the end of this month.

DfE names areas with low and high take-up of phonics resources and training

Friday, January 20, 2012

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Thousands of schools have signed up to the Government's scheme for match-funding for phonics products.

EYFS REVIEW: Sector backs plans to cut red tape in welfare requirements

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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The new safeguarding and welfare requirements under the revised EYFS have been broadly welcomed by the sector, particularly with their aim to reduce bureaucracy in risk assessments.

EYFS REVIEW: Second consultation deadline is nearing

Monday, January 9, 2012

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The early years sector has only until 19 January to respond to the Department for Education's second consultation on proposed changes to some of the learning and development requirements in the EYFS.

Call to allow infant class sizes above 30 children

Friday, January 6, 2012

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A London council is asking the Government to consider whether the limit on infant class sizes should be raised above 30 pupils.

EYFS REVIEW: children's minister confirms guidance is on the way

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Early years practitioners will receive guidance on implementing the revised EYFS, children's minister Sarah Teather has confirmed.

EYFS REVIEW: second consultation on early learning goals

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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The early learning goals for literacy and mathematics in the EYFS have been amended, in light of the response from the early years sector to the revised framework.

Revised EYFS: Gearing up for the challenges of delivery

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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Dame Clare Tickell is urging practitioners to focus on the importance of reflective practice and the role of supervision in the run-up to the introduction of the revised EYFS.

Sector raises concerns about revised EYFS

Monday, October 3, 2011

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The early years sector has been responding to the Early Years Foundation Stage consultation which ended on 30 September.

EYFS review: 'Slimmed down' EYFS and payment by results for Sure Start children's centres

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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The number of early learning goals in the EYFS will be radically reduced, in plans set out by the Government in its response to the Tickell review.

EYFS REVIEW: Early years sector gives EYFS review a warm welcome

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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The early years sector has given an overwhelmingly positive response to recommendations made by Dame Clare Tickell in her review of the EYFS.

Allen's early intervention report calls for better-qualified workforce

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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Labour MP Graham Allen has called for an increase in graduate and postgraduate leadership in early years settings, in his Government-commissioned report on early intervention.

Primary becomes first state Montessori school

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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An Essex school is the first in the country to become a fully accredited Montessori state school.

Early years programmes 'failing to improve literacy and numeracy'

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Early years initiatives, such as Sure Start and the free entitlement for three-and four-year-olds, have not improved children's literacy and numeracy by the time they start school, according to new research.

Sector responds to free places for poorest two-year-olds

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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All the most disadvantaged two-year-olds are to be offered free part-time nursery places as part of a 'fairness premium', deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced last Friday.

Schools misdiagnosing children with special educational needs

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Thousands of children are being wrongly diagnosed as having a special educational need, when they require better teaching or pastoral care instead, claims a report by Ofsted.

Opposition to academies gathers force

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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Unions have stepped up their campaign against academy schools following the news that a group of leading Liberal Democrats involved in education are opposing the Academies Bill.

Northern Ireland's new 0-6 strategy 'lacks detail'

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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A new early years strategy that could see children in Northern Ireland start school at six has met with mixed reactions from the childcare and education sectors.

Pledge to extend free entitlement for nursery education to 15 hours is upheld

Monday, June 7, 2010

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The extension to the free entitlement to 15 hours per week is to go ahead from September as planned.

Educators weigh up academy opt-out offer for primary schools

Friday, May 28, 2010

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Primary head teachers have been weighing up the pros and cons of opting out of local authority control following education secretary Michael Gove's invitation for state primary schools to become academies.

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