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Keir Starmer delivering his keynote speech at the Labour conference PHOTO Labour Party, YouTube
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Labour conference: Starmer promises to launch a 'National Excellence Programme' for education

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Foxes Nursery at Woodlands Primary. Many children have missed out on time in nursery due to the pandemic leading to head teachers questioning 'the efficacy and validity' of data from the Reception baseline
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Analysis: Schools question need for the new Reception Baseline

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Children delivering the petition to Downing Street
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Four-year-olds deliver petition against tests in Reception to Number 10

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More than 100,000 parents signed the parliamentary petition calling for a review of the childcare funding system and affordability PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Minister dismisses parent campaign petition calling for childcare funding review

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Eighty-five per cent of nurseries are making or loss or just breaking even, up from 54 per cent in 2018, the NDNA survey found PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Sharp rise in number of nurseries making a loss – survey

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Just Childcare has sold 23 of its freeholds to property investor LXi REIT
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Nursery group sells freeholds in £34m sale-and-leaseback deal

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Nurseries in Wales have had their business rates relief extended to help them recover from the impact of Covid and remain sustainable PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Wales extends business rates relief for nurseries until 2025

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Primary schools report concerns about young children's 'emotional and academic readiness' for school PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Children's transition into Reception impacted by Covid

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While some families with new babies are keen to mix with others again, others are more reluctant PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Coronavirus: Services for babies 'stretched' and failing to reach many families

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Natalie Kane, manager of Trinity Tots in Edinburgh, and Gillian Muir, early years administrator at Trinity Tots in Edinburgh
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Interview - Natalie Kane and Gillian Muir

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Nurseries and pre-schools will receive CO2 monitors in line with schools, but childminders have been excluded from the scheme
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Nurseries and pre-schools will receive air quality monitors next term

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Family First has bought Nursery on the Green (pictured) and Nursery on the Hill, both in Enfield
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Family First nursery group acquires 21st setting

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Ministers have claimed that new early years funding rates will cover national minimum and living wages increases but has yet to publish calculations to demonstrate this PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Early years Alliance files complaint over DfE refusal to release funding data

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Three more nursery schools are set to close this summer PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

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Humza Yousaf PHOTO Scottish Government
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Scottish health secretary claims nursery discriminated against two-year-old daughter

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Rise in hospital admissions for Covid among unvaccinated pregnant women

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