Nicole Weinstein

Marcus Rashford MBE
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Marcus Rashford launches website to support children in food poverty this Christmas

Nutrition
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Vulnerable babies ‘invisible’ in the pandemic

Health
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on a nursery visit
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Scotland: nurseries told to limit services for three weeks

Policy & Politics
NHS guidance has been updated to enable partners to attend antenatal appointments and be present at their child's birth
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Coronavirus: All women now entitled to have a partner at birth

Coronavirus
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Wraparound care sector ramps up fight for more support

Coronavirus
Early years workers 'as essential as roads or rail'
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MPs discuss early years workforce challenges

Coronavirus
Children are still limited by 'harmful' outdated gender stereotypes, the researchers found
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Gender stereotyping causes ‘lifelong harm’ - study

Child Development
The researchers found that children whose parents shared books with them before they started school did better at reading, spelling and maths at Key Stage 1
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Early language learning linked to academic ability in primary school

Literacy
During the first three years of life, our brains develop at their most rapid pace
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Learn about the science of brain development

Birth to Threes
Coronavirus has exacerbated the financial situation for many low-income families
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Coronavirus: Low-income families at ‘breaking point’

Coronavirus
From 2023, parents who defer their child's school start will have an automatic right to an extra year of funded early learning and childcare
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Scotland to offer free childcare for children who defer school

Policy & Politics
The Out of School Alliance warns that without sustainability funding, many after-school, breakfast and holiday clubs will close
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Out-of-school sector threatened with collapse

Coronavirus
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Scotland’s childcare expansion programme: new data published

Funding
Minister Vicky Ford said the funding rise will cover increases to the National Living Wage
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Extra £44m funding will cover living wage rise, minister says in early years debate

Business
Children's minister Maree Todd on a visit to a nursery
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Scottish nurseries win relief from business rates until 2023

Policy & Politics
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One million children living in poverty ineligible for free school meals

Policy & Politics