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Call for more focus on children's speech and language in Schools Bill

Communication and Language
The Covid inquiry will now look at the impact the pandemic has had on very young children, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Covid inquiry to now consider the pandemic's impact on children in the early years

Coronavirus
Theirworld Global Youth Ambassadors Yuv Sungkur and Elizabeth Pennington at the UN Summit where they delivered their letter to world leaders
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World leaders told to invest in the early years to 'avert a crisis'

Policy & Politics
There has been a greater loss in nursery places in deprived areas, Ofsted figures show PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Fall of more than 4,000 childcare providers in a year

Provision
Laura Weir, manager of Rosedene nursery, Hardwick: 'We are seeing the damaging effects of the ever-growing cost-of-living crisis, so we felt it was responsible to do something to help'
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Analysis: Early years settings step up support for families as cost of living crisis hits

Analysis
Parent Rachel Massey is calling for the funded childcare hours to be available as soon as a child turns three rather than the term after PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Petition urges Government to make funded childcare available as soon as a child turns three

Funding
The DfE's national plan for music education has been 'refreshed' to cover the early years PHOTO Adobe Stock
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DfE's national plan for music extended to the early years

Music & Rhymes
The research from the IFS compares the development of children born in the early 2000's and a decade later, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Little progress made in closing the development gap in children over a decade - IFS

Birth to Threes
The London Early Years Foundation is calling for funding for nursery food and nutritional standards in early years settings PHOTO Isabelle Johnson/London Early Years Foundation
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Nursery group calls for funding to improve access to high-quality nursery food for vulnerable children

Provision
The Early Years Alliance campaign aims to educate parents and politicians on the importance of early learning and the role of educators
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Early Years Alliance launches its #WeAreEducators campaign

Policy & Politics
'I took a lot away from the maths modules,' says Hayley Woods.
Opinion

How the Building on Success training programme has helped me navigate change

Careers & Training
The children and families minister Will Quince visited Ur Och Skur Gronlingen, an outdoor nursery in Sweden
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Children and families minister visits nurseries in Sweden as part of mission to cut childcare costs

Policy & Politics
The Times Education Commission makes a number of recommendations for the early years sector, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

Policy & Politics
The rise to schools meals funding for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children has been branded as 'inadequate' PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Universal free school meals funding rises by just 7p a pupil

Child Poverty
Sally Hogg: 'Babies’ early environments and experiences shapes their early development – with potentially pervasive and long-term consequences'
Opinion

Early relationships as a foundation for early education

Viewpoint
The TUC warns that mothers are caught in a 'catch-22' with rising childcare costs and statutory maternity pay falling in real terms PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Childcare costs rise by more than £2,000 in over a decade

Families

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