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Spending time playing and exploring the outdoors is vital to children's well-being
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Nurseries and childminders urged to take learning outside on Outdoor Classroom Day

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Maintained nursery schools fear closure without emergency funding to cover their losses during the pandemic
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Coronavirus: Nursery schools warn survival on a 'cliff edge'

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Men account for just 3 per cent of the early years workforce in the UK, compared to 9 per cent in Norway
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Men in childcare: now is a ‘crucial’ time to act

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Multiple studies show that outdoor learning can boost children's well-being, health, attainment and resilience
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Environmental and youth organisations call for MP inquiry into benefits of outdoor learning

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Primary schools are focussing on reading as 'the foundation for wider learning' in children's return to school
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Parental anxiety leads to rise in parents choosing to home school children - Ofsted

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Figures show that the number of children returning to early years settings is on the rise
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Occupancy in early years settings rising slowly

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Coronavirus: One in five schools report ‘significant’ absences due to Covid-19

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Mollie King, presenter and singer, was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of eight, and is backing the British Dyslexia Association campaign for more support, diagnosis and assessment in schools
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Singer Mollie King launches Dyslexia Awareness Week

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Tricia Pritchard, chair of Regulation Matters, which is campaigning for a scheme to register nannies and the regulation of nanny agencies
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Campaigners express frustration over Government’s refusal to register nannies

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Children's commissioner Anne Longfield
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Coronavirus: Children must be at the ‘forefront’ of Covid-19 planning

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David Dawds has been turned down for funding at the private nursery of his choice and said the situation has caused his family unnecessary stress
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PVI settings and parents in Scotland cite funding ‘postcode lottery’

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The survey found that the least qualified and experienced staff were more likely to have been furloughed or made redundant
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Coronavirus: 7 in 10 early years staff on furlough - survey

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County councils are warning that closures in rural areas would leave families without any childcare at all
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Councils warn that a quarter of childcare providers could close in rural areas

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Nurseries and childminders have reported struggles both with accessing Covid tests and delays with results
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Outcry from the early years sector as minister confirms testing kits for maintained nurseries only

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LEYF's Angel Pre-school has received a donation from charity Sal's Shoes
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Nursery group receives children's shoe donation for struggling families

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