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Some early years students experienced limited hours in placements due to the impact of Covid PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Training: Students face problems with lack of hours spent in nursery placements

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As well as health checks, dentistry is also an area of concern PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

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Natalie Kane, manager of Trinity Tots in Edinburgh, and Gillian Muir, early years administrator at Trinity Tots in Edinburgh
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Interview - Natalie Kane and Gillian Muir

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Should nursery workers be fully vaccinated to work in early years settings? PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Early years sector split over making Covid vaccine a condition of employment

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The report estimates that hundred of thousands of children are missing out on free school meals
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One million children in poverty ineligible for free school meals

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Nurseries and pre-schools will receive CO2 monitors in line with schools, but childminders have been excluded from the scheme
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Nurseries and pre-schools will receive air quality monitors next term

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Lathallan Nursery in Angus has taken part in the Virtual Nature School
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Virtual learning about nature leads to outdoor experiences for nursery children

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Family First has bought Nursery on the Green (pictured) and Nursery on the Hill, both in Enfield
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Family First nursery group acquires 21st setting

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The Children's Society found children's wellbeing has fallen, and that around 250,000 children have struggled during the pandemic PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Children in the UK less happy than ten years ago

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Parents in deprived areas were more likely to report that they were struggling to find childcare PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Poorer families struggle to access childcare - survey

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Rainbow Day Nursery has been bought by Atherton House
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North-West nursery group buys fifth setting

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The campaign aims to encourage more diversity in books available in children's libraries PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Just 5 per cent of nursery books feature characters in non-stereotypical gender roles

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Under proposals by both councils, the number of full-time health visitors would be reduced, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Concerns that council plans to cut health visitors will 'cause preventable harm'

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Childminder Kirsty Sarney says the way childminders have been treated is unfair: 'Childminders have been forgotten. We’re the bottom of the pecking order.'
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Childminder campaigns for Government to change rules on Coronavirus isolation

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Play Therapy UK and Play Therapy International say that the Coronation Street episode 'discounted the effectiveness of play therapy', PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Play therapists demand ITV apologise for airing Coronation Street episode that 'brings the profession into disrepute'

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The Sutton Trust has called it a 'national scandal' that the poorest three and four-year-olds are 'locked out' of the 30 hours policy
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Make 30 hours funded childcare universal to close the attainment gap

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