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Barnado's chief executive and actress Michelle Collins have handed the petition to No.10 Downing Street, PHOTO: Barnardo's
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Petition calling for free school meals for all primary children to be delivered to 10 Downing Street

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The Queen Consort with the children's laureate discussing the books they read as children, SCREEN GRAB: BookTrust
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World Book Day 2023: The Queen Consort and children's laureate share their love of books

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Plum Money app have written a letter to the Prime Minister to ask for more support for early education, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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PM told to 'prioritise' childcare and deliver more support for early education

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Edelweiss Childcare is a Rutland member
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Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

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The TUC analysis finds that in the education sector, the gender pay gap is 22 per cent, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Call for better wages for childcare staff as research shows gender pay gap persists

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Sadiq Khan visited his old school Fircroft Primary, in Tooting, on 20 February PHOTO Mayor of London
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All primary children in London to receive free school meals for a year

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The survey found a growing trend among employers to recognise the need to support their employees with flexible working PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Working parents seek practical support from employers to balance family life

Provision
Researchers looked at whether the 30 hours entitlement should be extended to all children, particularly those of low-income families PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Disadvantaged children 'positively benefit' from 20 hours a week of early years education – research

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A third of those that responded to the Alliance surveyed said they are likely to close within the next year, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

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Anne Longfield: Why the Government's commitment to Family Hubs is 'not enough'

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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
The nursery on the UKHSA Porton Down site, operated by Bright Horizons, is to close in the summer, PHOTO: GOV.UK
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UKHSA nursery run by Bright Horizons to close

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

Families
As part of the campaign, a short Claymation film has been released of a child during her first five years of life, STILL: Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood
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Princess of Wales launches new early childhood campaign

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Carey Oppenheim: Changing public conversation around the importance of the early years

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