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WINNER: Mary Barlow, The Totem Pole, Grantham, Lincolnshire
The total number of childcare places in England has dropped by 11,000 in three months as the recession takes its toll on early years providers, the latest Ofsted figures show.
The Government is urging health visitors who have left their jobs to return to the profession, as part of plans for recruiting 4,200 health visitors that are to be unveiled in the autumn.
Childcare providers have escaped some 20-fold rises in Ofsted registration fees after a Government climbdown.
The fate of two university nurseries threatened with closure by the University of Westminster remains in the balance following a temporary reprieve.
Experts are urging parents to give their children daily doses of Vitamin D, as research shows a lack of awareness of its benefits.
Preventable health conditions are reaching epidemic levels in children, which could lead to a generation dying before their parents, according to doctors at a leading children's hospital.
Early years organisations have expressed alarm at the fall in the number of childcare places and early years settings during the past 12 months.
A management training route is outlined by Karen Faux.