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Leaving a baby to cry can help them to develop self-regulation, researchers have found
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Leaving a baby to cry has no negative effects on child development

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More than 80 per cent of parents receiving childcare support through universal credit are single mothers
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Universal credit childcare rules could discriminate against women

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Pregnant Then Screwed wants the Government to provide properly subsidised childcare from the age of nine months
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Cost of childcare 'punishing' for working parents

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Children 1st is joint first in the Nursery Chains quality league table. Pictured is Children 1st@Rosemary Lane in Lincoln, which opened in 2018
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Children 1st are joint top of Nursery World’s Ofsted league table

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Nursery owner Debbie Moliterno says she worries every month about outgoings because of the burden of business rates
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Nursery owner re-launches business rates petition

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The petition calls for the 15-hour childcare offer to be available for working parents when babies are nine months old
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MPs to debate offering 15-hour childcare from nine months

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The campaign group want 30-hour childcare to be made available to all children Image by Equality for Disadvantaged Children
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Campaigners call for 30-hour childcare to be made universal to close disadvantage gap

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Workforce survey: Early years sector under increasing strain

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O’Shana Haughton, deputy manager and the second lead at Stockwell Gardens Nursery and Pre-School (LEYF) Credit: London Early Years Foundation/Isabelle Johnson
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Nursery group launches men-only apprenticeships

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The report finds that the UK still has one of the highest mortality rates in Europe for children with asthma
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'UK in danger of failing a generation of children’, warn doctors

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Most insurance policies would not provide cover if nurseries had to close because of an outbreak of coronavirus
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Coronavirus: Nurseries not covered for 'notifiable diseases'

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An aerial view of Elephant Park in London, where Tigers Childcare has opened its first UK setting
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Irish childcare group opens first UK nursery

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Ofsted consults on complaints process for early years settings

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Early years workforce commission set up to tackle recruitment crisis

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Audit Scotland says councils have just half of the staff they need for settings to deliver the 1,400 hours from August
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Roll-out of Scotland's 1,140 hours could face delays, warns spending watchdog

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Childcare seminar and report examine the state of the market

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