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'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
News

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
News

Childcare costs rise by more than £2,000 in over a decade

Families
The NCFE will consult with the sector as part of the review of the L3 EYE qualification PHOTO: NCFE
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Level 3 EYE qualification to be reviewed this summer

Management
Boris Johnson says he will reduce childcare costs by making it easier to become a childminder PHOTO UK Gov
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Prime minister says he will 'make it easier to become a childminder'

Provision
More primary school children qualified for free school meals in January compared to last year, reveal official statistics PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Number of children eligible for free school meals increases amid rise in poverty

Policy & Politics
Speaking at the Early Years Alliance Annual Conference, Neil Leitch said that changing ratios would be 'an enormous backward step'
News

Leitch warns of 'crisis' in early years sector 'crying out for change'

Policy & Politics
Children's earliest years are vital to their development PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Call for dedicated services to support early trauma

Birth to Threes
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News

Take part in a survey on the early years sector's reputation

Policy & Politics
Many families are struggling to afford school lunches, campaigners say PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Teachers call for universal free school meals in England

Policy & Politics
Ministers want to change the number of two-year-olds staff can care for from 1:4 to 1:5
News

Analysis - Why changing the rules is no easy fix to cost challenges

Analysis
The study will follow families and their babies from nine-months-old
News

New child development study will track first five years of babies' lives

Policy & Politics
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £5bn windfall tax on energy firms to ease cost of living crisis
News

Cost of living support package to bring only 'temporary relief' to families

Child Poverty

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