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Children taking part in a 'wellbeing wind down', one of the events taking place at the festival PHOTO Katherine Leedale
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Imagine Children's Festival to celebrate children's uniqueness

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Amanda Spielman, Ofsted chief inspector
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Ofsted finds impact of Covid on learning and development of 'almost all children'

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Ofsted restarted inspections In May this year
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Ofsted 'must take account of ongoing pandemic in inspection'

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Tricia Pritchard, managing director of BAPN, is closing the association to retire from the sector
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Nanny association BAPN to close

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Helen Hayes MP has replaced Tulip Siddiq as shadow children and early years minister in the Labour reshuffle
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Helen Hayes named new shadow children and early years minister

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Strong Early Years London has launched its second quarterly survey for PVI settings in the Capital, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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London nurseries and childminders urged to take part in survey to understand the pressures they face

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The iHV's report reveals a postcode lottery of health visiting services due to cuts in the number of professionals and rising needs in families
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Concerns vulnerable children are being let down due to 'stretched' health visiting services

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Bright Minds Daycare, a group of four nurseries, has been bought by N Family Club
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N Family Club grows to 17 settings

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Early years settings are suffering a recruitment crisis across the board PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

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Many new dads struggle with fatherhood PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Charity launches free parenting app with personalised daily content for fathers

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Concerns have been raised that the DfE's mentoring and leadership programme will take much needed staff away from settings PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Sector concerned DfE mentoring programme will put added pressure on nurseries

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The cross-party committee of Lords want the Government to revert back to 2010 levels of spending on early years services PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Early years funding is ‘treading water’, finds report

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Early years providers will be provided with air quality monitors designed to limit the spread of Coronavirus PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Nurseries and pre-schools to receive air quality monitors before Christmas

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Bridget Phillipson MP has been appointed as shadow education secretary PHOTO Twitter
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Bridget Phillipson appointed shadow education secretary

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The latest school attendance figures show the number of pupils off because of Coronavirus has grown, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Covid cases on the rise in schools

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Brixham Harbour, Torbay, Devon - the local authority has seen the highest decline in childcare places in England since 2015 PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Loss of childcare places highest in South West

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