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Covid has accelerated serious sustainability and access issues
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EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows

Analysis
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EYFS best practice: All about… Down’s syndrome

Practice
Staff in early years settings will no longer be required to take Covid tests twice-weekly PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

Coronavirus
From today (21 February) early years settings will no longer need to notify Ofsted of any confirmed Covid cases among staff or children PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Nurseries and childminders will no longer need to report Covid cases to Ofsted

Coronavirus
Claudine Bower-Crane of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research: 'Given the importance of ECEC (early childhood education and care), it is alarming that it has not been recognised in the Levelling Up White Paper'
Opinion

Early years forgotten again

Closing the Gap
The TUC is urging the Government to increase the national minimum wage to £10 for all childcare workers
News

TUC calls for 'urgent cash boost' to help childcare sector recover from the pandemic

Policy & Politics
Charity Teach First is calling on the Government to increase the early years pupil premium to the same rate received by schools PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Calls for early years pupil premium to match primary schools' rate

Policy & Politics
Responses to the API's Freedom of Information request revealed a 'postcode lottery' of free outdoor play provision across the UK PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Access to play spaces 'unfair' and 'unequal', finds new research

Policy & Politics
The TUC has warned that Families face rising energy bills and living costs this April, with many already struggling financially PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Millions of low-income families to 'face a crunch point' with bills rise in April

Families
The number of reported Covid cases in nurseries grew over January, reveal new Ofsted figures PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Covid cases in nurseries hit new reported high

Coronavirus
Hartlepool is one of the 55 'cold spots' identified as 'Education Investment Areas' in the Government's new White Paper, PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

'No real support' for early years in Government's levelling up white paper

Closing the Gap
A judge found Scotland's pre-school milk scheme to be 'unlawful' PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Scottish nursery milk scheme ruled to be 'unlawful'

Policy & Politics
Children under five who are identified as close contacts are exempt from self- isolation and do not need to take part in daily testing of close contacts PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Coronavirus: Early years staff absences fall while cases in children grow

Coronavirus
Researchers from the UCL found that large private nursery groups were less likely to increase childcare places or invest more in staff PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Nurseries at risk of collapse due to 'large corporate takeovers'

Management
Opinion

Is financialisation putting childcare provision in England at risk?

Viewpoint
Courteney Donaldson believes the market will remain buoyant this year
Opinion

The greatest threat to nurseries is Government underfunding, not 'risky, financial operating models'

Viewpoint

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