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

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Children are still limited by 'harmful' outdated gender stereotypes, the researchers found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

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'Outdoor spaces particularly provide rich opportunities for sharing ideas and feelings with peers,' the draft guidance says
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EYFS: Draft of Birth to 5 Matters out for consultation with early years practitioners

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Nurseries conflicted over test and trace responsibilities over Christmas holidays

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Most nurseries surveyed by Ofsted reported fewer children had returned after the national lockdown
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A third of nurseries fear closure - Ofsted

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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

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Childcare Level 3 qualifications to be free from April

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Children and families minister Vicky Ford visiting a LEYF nursery earlier this year
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Coronavirus: Children's minister sets out £4.4m fund to support children impacted by pandemic

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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

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Scotland’s childcare expansion programme: new data published

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The national living wage will apply to all 23- and 24-year-olds for the first time from April 2021
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Sector questions minister’s claims on extra £44m and national living wage

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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

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

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Beatrice Merrick: 'Far less attention has been given to the issue of whether the workforce reflects the ethnicities of the children and families it supports'
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Diversity in the early years workforce: new data but more is needed

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One million children living in poverty ineligible for free school meals

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Nottinghamshire nurseries chosen to help flght childhood obesity

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