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Under-fives choose doctor as top career choice

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

| Nursery World

A quarter of children already have an idea about what they want to be by the time they are five, new research from the National Childminding Association suggests.

Grandparents: 'too old' to care?

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Friday, July 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Grandparents over the age of 65 are considered too old by social workers to raise their young grandchildren, according to a new report.

National Childcare Week survey highlights parent volunteers

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Friday, July 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Almost 60 per cent of mums would be interested in a volunteering role that involves their children, a new survey by the Daycare Trust suggests.

Parents want more flexible, part-time leave to look after children

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Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

More than nine out of ten parents are in favour of a more flexible parental leave, according to a new survey.

School lunches will cost parents more

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

| Nursery World

The cost of school meals is to rise as much as by two-thirds in some areas of the country at the start of the new term, a new survey has found.

Troubled Families programme on track to help 120,000 'high-risk' households

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Monday, November 25, 2013

| Nursery World

New figures from the Government’s Troubled Families programme show that halfway into the three-year programme, more than fifty-per-cent (62,000) of the 120,000 identified households are being worked with.

MPs debate flexibility of school start for summer-borns

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Friday, September 6, 2013

| Nursery World

Liberal Democrat MP Annette Brooke has chaired a debate in the House of Commons on the school starting age for summer born children.

Clegg calls for extension to the free entitlement

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

| Nursery World

All children from one to five years old could benefit from free hours of early education, in plans being considered by the Liberal Democrats.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's communications skills will be the focus of a 'National Year' campaign in 2011 spearheaded by the Communication Trust, a 38-strong consortium of private and voluntary sector providers, set up by Afasic, BT Better World Campaign, the Council for Disabled Children and I CAN.

MPs set out vision for '1001 days'

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Supporting parental and child wellbeing through pregnancy to the first two years of a child’s life should be viewed as a key priority and attract as much spending as the defence budget, former children’s minister Tim Loughton has said.

Interview - Sue Atkins, Parenting expert

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Sue Atkins talks to Sue Learner about parenting and discipline, in the wake of the riots that spread destruction through the streets of London and most of the major English cities.

Analysis: Why early intervention needs to be a priority

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

| Nursery World

Even before the General Election, politicians from different parties were uniting in calls for investment in early intervention that could reduce society's ills and costs over the long term. Laura Marcus looks at the possibilities for making it happen.

'Earning less is better than not getting the business'

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Nursery World's facebook page was inundated with comments last week, as childcare providers debated the issue of increased financial pressure on parents' incomes, versus raising fees to cope with the rise in provider costs.