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Scotland’s childcare expansion programme: new data published

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Ofsted said that it will take the challenges providers have faced during the pandemic into account, when carrying out assurance inspections
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Ofsted: More details on early years assurance inspections set out

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The national living wage will apply to all 23- and 24-year-olds for the first time from April 2021
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Sector questions minister’s claims on extra £44m and national living wage

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Minister Vicky Ford said the funding rise will cover increases to the National Living Wage
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Extra £44m funding will cover living wage rise, minister says in early years debate

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Children's minister Maree Todd on a visit to a nursery
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Scottish nurseries win relief from business rates until 2023

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One million children living in poverty ineligible for free school meals

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Ofsted is delaying reintroducing full inspections of early years settings until the summer term 2021
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Ofsted plans 'phased return' to inspections in summer 2021

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Gill Jones, Ofsted, deputy director, early years
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Exclusive: Ofsted to explore why nursery groups fare better in inspections

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Nottinghamshire nurseries chosen to help flght childhood obesity

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N Family Club has opened a nursery on Church Street in Stoke Newington
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N Family Club expands to six nurseries in London

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Art-based activities, put together by nurseries for parents to do with their children during lockdown, were popular with families of pre-school children
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Coronavirus: Arts and crafts and YouTube top resources during lockdown

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Funding scheme boosts early speech and language intervention

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The CBeebies TV series will play on BBC Sounds from today (1 December)
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JoJo and Gran Gran to air on CBeebies radio

Families
The International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study looks at children at age five
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Low birth weight an indicator of delayed development at age five - study

Child Development
Ofsted's chief inspector Amanda Spielman has raised concerns about the effect of Covid-19 on vulnerable children
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Ofsted chief flags up concern about risks to vulnerable children in the pandemic

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The Government's new Covid Workforce Fund is only open to schools and colleges
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Exclusion of early years settings from new Covid fund a 'slap in the face'

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