Disadvantaged children will miss out on childcare expansion plans, unless support is targeted – report
Government plans to increase childcare will mean that a low-income parent stands to take home just...
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Government plans to increase childcare will mean that a low-income parent stands to take home just...
The Government’s multi-million pound catch-up programme risks failing pupils who need it the most,...
Two-thirds of primary schools have signed up for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)...
Around half of four-year-olds were ‘not ready’ to start Reception last September, according to a new...
Where was the early years sector in the Government's White Paper on 'Levelling-Up'? Experts ...
A charity is calling for the Government to ‘align’ the early years pupil premium rate with the...
Early years organisations, charities and teaching unions have criticised the Government’s new...
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC), an independent body which advises the Government, says the...
New research reveals the attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils in Key...
Labour will use an opposition day motion on Wednesday to push for Conservative MPs to end the...
The prime minister’s catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins resigned on Wednesday night in response to the...
Various organisations urge the Government to make more funding available to early years settings as...
Nearly half of early years providers believe the gap between disadvantaged under-fives and their...
The Queen has made reference to the early years in her speech to officially re-open Parliament.
Children’s laureate Cressida Cowell is calling on the Prime Minister to invest £100m a year to...
‘The Prime Minister’s promise to “level up” is just a slogan unless it focuses on children,’...
Councils have improved local speech and language services and raised the profile of the early years...
The Education Endowment Foundation is funding three different studies that will look at the impact...
The effect of deprivation in dozens of English local authorities is now so persistent that some...
Teachers estimate that children are on average three months behind in their learning, while the gap...
The attainment gap between rich and poor Reception-age children has stagnated for seven years, new...
Nearly a decade of closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers is...
The public spending watchdog has warned that the development gap for disadvantaged children is at...
A campaign group of parents believe that the 30 hours discriminates against the most disadvantaged...
The Department for Education (DfE) has earmarked up to £11.8 million to extend its National School...
A pot of money aimed at helping disadvantaged children narrow the attainment gap has been cut by 40...
The Government has announced additional funding for its Opportunity Area programme which will now...
Ipswich is the only one of the Opportunity Areas to have improved self-regulation as an early years...
A new poll reveals widespread fears among Conservative councillors about the impact of cuts to...
If the new children and families minister is interested in closing the disadvantage gap, she needs...
How a home-visiting programme could help prevent inequalities in child development and health by...
The disadvantage gap has now stopped closing in the early years, and there is a real risk any...
Despite a recent Social Mobility Commission report and an IFS review under way, the inequality...
Andrea Quincey is head of primary English at Oxford University Press, which has today published a...
Under-fives living in disadvantaged areas are to benefit from additional help with their early...
A thousand health visitors in the most deprived parts of England will be given specialist training...
The Government’s shift in focus towards childcare as a means of getting parents back to work, away...
The BBC’s new early years language and literacy initiative aims to halve the pre-school language...
A new cross-Government ministerial group, chaired by the leader of the House of Commons Andrea...
The Government should review 30 hour childcare to address the ‘perverse consequences’ that are...
Early years services must prioritise children’s cognitive development to combat income-related...
The early learning gap between children in poverty and their peers has widened in half of areas...
Findings from a survey by the Social Mobility Commission, which relaunched today, reveal that people...
The gap between children on free school meals and their peers at the end of Reception has widened,...
A‘Ready for School’ fund is being launched to test approaches to close the communication and...
Government-funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds has had a modest impact on children’s...
The education secretary will today pledge to halve the number of children starting school below the...
How one nursery chain is helping children from deprived households close the gap with their ‘lucky’...
A breakdown of the EYFS Profile results for 2016/17 reveals that children eligible for free school...
An American study in academic journal Frontiers in Psychology has found that Montessori early years...