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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Hannah Belton, director and head of employment law at Morgan LaRoche, on how the furlough scheme is changing

EYFS best practice in schools - Together again

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Preparing for September’s Year 1 starters, many of whom have had Reception curtailed, is changing the way some schools approach their curriculum. Charlotte Goddard reports

Coronavirus: Nurseries use hi-tech systems to reassure parents sending children to settings is safe

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

As lockdown eases, early years settings are finding that they need to adapt to stay open in a changing environment.

Around the Nursery, part 10 - In their Prime?

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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How settings can meet the requirements of the Prime areas of the EYFS in the baby room. By Penny Tassoni

Coronavirus Resources - Coming clean

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Settings are going to great efforts to ensure their enabling environments contain rich, stimulating resources, despite the constraints of Covid-19, Nicole Weinstein finds

Kate Green named shadow education secretary

Monday, June 29, 2020

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Kate Green, Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston, was appointed shadow education secretary over the weekend.

Fears parents will be driven to use unregulated childcare

Monday, June 29, 2020

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Anticipated mass nursery and childminder closures could result in desperate parents putting their children at risk by unwittingly resorting to unregulated childcare, warns the Regulation Matters (RM) Campaign.

Coronavirus: Parents want fewer days in the office but struggle without childcare in pandemic

Monday, June 29, 2020

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Lockdown has led almost half of working parents to consider requesting more flexible working arrangements but parents strongly recognise that they need childcare support in order to work effectively, research by Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions has found.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: 'my staff deserve recognition'

Monday, June 29, 2020

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One manager thanks her staff for all their extra work and dedication.

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

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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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.

Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked as shadow education secretary

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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Labour leader Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey after she shared an 'antisemitic conspiracy theory' on Twitter.

Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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The Reception Baseline has been postponed for a year to autumn 2021 due to the ‘challenging circumstances’ schools face with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government has announced, in a move welcomed by campaigners.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: One nursery team's positivity in the face of a post-lockdown burglary

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

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The MTO Nursery team didn't let Covid-19 stop them supporting children and families - or a burglary on their first day of wider opening.

Childminder numbers continue to fall in Ofsted pre-lockdown latest figures

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

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The latest Ofsted childcare providers and inspections report, to 31 March 2020, reveals childminder numbers continuing to fall, while nurseries and total childcare places showed little change.

Holiday and out-of-school clubs to open from 4 July

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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Holiday clubs and wraparound provision will be allowed to reopen from 4 July.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: learning about peaceful protests

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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Easton Community Children's Centre talked to children about recent protests and being kind to everyone.

Coronavirus: Option to delay school being explored by UK's largest nursery group

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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The UK's largest nursery group Busy Bees is working with local authorities to explore a funded ‘stay-in-nursery’ scheme, which would give parents the option to delay the start of their child’s primary school for up to two terms.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Nursery group launches free family meal scheme

Monday, June 22, 2020

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A free family meal scheme, which aims to give each funded family a hot meal three times a week, is being rolled out by Kidzrus Nursery Group in Manchester.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: a golden bear hunt

Monday, June 22, 2020

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'We're going on a bear hunt...we're going to catch a "golden" one'. How Happy Kids arranged a wonderful activity for local children.

Daily online EYFS activities launched for parents and carers