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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty playing with a baby at the St Austell Family Hub in Cornwall, PHOTO: @RishiSunak
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Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

Birth to Threes
According to Action for Children, 440,000 children in poverty are living in households where one or more parents work full-time, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Almost 2 million children could be 'trapped in poverty' as work is not the 'silver bullet'

Birth to Threes
Rutland Early Years childminding agency has been rated 'ineffective' by Ofsted
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Childminding agency rated 'ineffective' putting members' funding at risk

Funding
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Government unveils major children’s social care reforms with £200m investment

Families
The NAO report highlights the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Disadvantaged children 'disproportionally' affected by learning loss during the pandemic

Policy & Politics
Eastfield Primary school staff on strike, PHOTO: @NEUnion Twitter
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Hundreds of thousands of teachers take to the picket lines

Policy & Politics
Funzone in Redditch had its rent hiked from £12,000 to £68,000
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Out-of-school providers at risk as rent bills skyrocket

Analysis
Liz Bayram is leaving PACEY after 15 years as chief executive
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Liz Bayram to step down as CEO of PACEY

Policy & Politics
A poll found 14 per cent of schools are planning to close to all pupils on the first day of strike action by teachers on 1 February 2023, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Teachers strike to go ahead after education secretary 'squandered an opportunity' to avoid action

Policy & Politics
Parents have already staged a protest against the closure of the nursery, with further protests planned
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Brighton parents campaigning against closure of council-run nursery

Families
Staff turnover in early years settings is 'astronomical', according to one nursery group owner PHOTO Adobe Stock
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High staff turnover, business rates, and underfunding highlighted in APPG early years event

Provision
The JRF's annual report on poverty reveals the scale of the problem in the UK, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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'Heartbreaking and wrong' that a million young children are growing up in poverty

Policy & Politics
The report finds the cost-of-living crisis is widening inequalities, especially in the North of England. PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Children in the North of England most impacted by economic crisis, warn MPs

Families
Seven dates of strike action by teachers have been announced by the NEU, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Teachers to strike in England and Wales

Policy & Politics
The Early Years Equality action group has set a date for a protest in London
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Early years action group to stage protest in March

Funding
Megan Stephans: 'Hope can be found, now as it was in Dickens' time, in people’s willingness to help'
Opinion

Megan Stephens: How the legacy of Victorian philanthropy lives on in the campaign for free school meals

Child Poverty

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