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More children in lone parent families are now living in relative poverty, while families with young children are particularly vulnerable to the cost in living crisis, according to two separate pieces of research, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Rise in children of lone parents living in poverty

Birth to Threes
The Scottish Government programme will provide healthy food and childcare to low-income families over the summer holidays, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Scotland to launch programme to support families at risk of poverty this summer

Families
The Early Years Alliance has written to the health minister outlining its concerns about planned changes to the scheme, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Fears providers will withdrawal from free milk scheme if they have to do more admin

Policy & Politics
The report from the EIF, Race Equality Foundation and Action for Children highlights the negative experiences of ethnic minority families when trying to access family support services PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Family support services need to do more to help minority ethnic families - report

Policy & Politics
The latest DfE statistics include figures on the take-up of childcare funding and how many providers are offering places, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Number of children in receipt of early years pupil premium at record high

Funding
The Covid inquiry will now look at the impact the pandemic has had on very young children, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Covid inquiry to now consider the pandemic's impact on children in the early years

Coronavirus
Theirworld Global Youth Ambassadors Yuv Sungkur and Elizabeth Pennington at the UN Summit where they delivered their letter to world leaders
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World leaders told to invest in the early years to 'avert a crisis'

Policy & Politics
The nursery group has teamed up the Best Practice Network to launch a graduate recruitment scheme, PHOTO Kids Planet
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Kids Planet opens graduate training scheme

Workforce
Parent Rachel Massey is calling for the funded childcare hours to be available as soon as a child turns three rather than the term after PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Petition urges Government to make funded childcare available as soon as a child turns three

Funding
The DfE's national plan for music education has been 'refreshed' to cover the early years PHOTO Adobe Stock
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DfE's national plan for music extended to the early years

Music & Rhymes
Happy Days Lancashire has been bought by Kids Planet
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Kids Planet and Thrive Education continue to grow

Provision
More than 60 per cent of libraries that took part in BookTrust's Storytime said the pilot helped them attract new families, PHOTO BookTrust
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More families visiting their local library thanks to reading charity scheme

Families
The research from the IFS compares the development of children born in the early 2000's and a decade later, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Little progress made in closing the development gap in children over a decade - IFS

Birth to Threes
Grandir UK has bought Rushcliffe Day Nurseries, a group of three sites in Nottingham
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The UK's top 10 largest nursery groups continue to expand

Provision
The Early Years Alliance campaign aims to educate parents and politicians on the importance of early learning and the role of educators
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Early Years Alliance launches its #WeAreEducators campaign

Policy & Politics
Parents of young children are being told to make sure they are up-to-date with their vaccinations as Polio virus is detected in sewage in London PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Parents urged to get their child vaccinated against polio as virus detected in sewage

Health