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Music therapy can comfort premature babies

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Playing live music to a premature baby can slow their heartbeat and help the child breathe more easily, a study has found.

Research seeks to eradicate childhood allergies

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Friday, October 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Doctors are to expose babies to dust mites in a 'radical study' to halt the rising allergy epidemic in Britain.

Paediatricians call on PM for urgent plan for all children to return to school

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

| Nursery World

More than 1,500 paediatricians have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for the Government to urgently publish a clear plan for getting all children back to school.

Free school meals feed minds as well as bodies

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

A two-year pilot that made free school meals available for all primary pupils significantly improved children's attainment, with children making between four and eight weeks more progress than is generally the case.

News Analysis: In numbers

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Friday, February 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Activity and obesity

Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.

Programme to support young children's mental health in schools

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Children from five years old attending schools in Leeds are to benefit from a scheme to improve their emotional well-being and mental health.

Call for young children's dental care to be prioritised

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| Nursery World

Parents struggle to access free oral health care and are unaware of dental checks for one-year-olds, according to a new survey.

Parents blame lack of playgrounds for child health problems

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Friday, August 30, 2019

| Nursery World

Three-quarters of parents say that a lack of play areas is affecting their child's health, figures suggest.

Interview - Dr Colin MacAdam

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Managing director of Playforce, a supplier of outdoor play and learning equipment for nurseries and primary schools.

Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill, public health minister

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| Nursery World

We talk to Andrea Leadsom and Jo Churchill about progress on the Early Years Healthy Development Review

Outdoor play is 'every child's right'

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Every child has a right to spend time outdoors, said Professor Jan White, speaking at Nursery World’s outdoor play conference.

Early years practitioners can make 'a positive' difference' to child health

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

| Nursery World

Children’s health has been ‘neglected for far too long in the early years’, a leading expert told delegates at Nursery World’s online CPD conference on the EYFS.

Nursery's grant to boost children's wellbeing and mental health

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Friday, February 17, 2017

| Nursery World

A nursery in St Albans has treated its children to a newly developed sensory room and bespoke wellbeing activities as part of Feeling Good Week.

Youngest children not active enough

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| Nursery World

Just nine per cent of children aged between two and four are doing the right amount of physical activity, experts have claimed.

Children as young as three unhappy with the way they look

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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of early years practitioners have heard a child calling themselves fat, with children as young as three are worried about their weight, according to new research.

Secret to instilling a love of fruit and veg in young children revealed

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Children are more likely to eat the food on their plate if there are seven different items and six different colours, finds a new study.

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centre staff in Wandsworth and Lewisham will be taught how to raise the issue of tackling childhood obesity with families, as part of a new programme commissioned by the NHS.

Lottery funding of £215 million awarded to early years projects

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

| Nursery World

Five areas in England will use the lottery money to pilot initiatives to improve children’s outcomes.

Gender gap crisis 'fails generation of boys', charity claims

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Monday, July 18, 2016

| Nursery World

A ‘gender gap crisis’ is seriously damaging prospects for boys in this country, according to a children’s charity.

Concern over cars and strangers keeps children indoors

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Monday, August 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Traffic and a fear of strangers are preventing children from playing outdoors, according to new research by Play England.

Early years group calls for smacking ban

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years training organisation NEyTCO has launched a social media awareness campaign in support of banning smacking.

Child detention 'will be ended', says new government

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

Campaigners have welcomed a pledge by the new coalition Government to end the detention of children in immigration centres.

Nursery food review to raise standards in food and drink in early years settings

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A Government review into standards of nursery food was launched today (Tuesday 16 March) by a new panel of experts and nutritionists, which will consider whether the quality of food in early years settings should be regulated.

New institute launches to connect childcare experts across the world

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Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

A new institute to drive the improvement of learning and care for babies, toddlers and young children has launched today.

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Music therapy can comfort premature babies

Research seeks to eradicate childhood allergies

Paediatricians call on PM for urgent plan for all children to return to school

Free school meals feed minds as well as bodies

News Analysis: In numbers

Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

Programme to support young children's mental health in schools

Call for young children's dental care to be prioritised

Parents blame lack of playgrounds for child health problems

Interview - Dr Colin MacAdam

Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill, public health minister

Outdoor play is 'every child's right'

Early years practitioners can make 'a positive' difference' to child health

Nursery's grant to boost children's wellbeing and mental health

Youngest children not active enough

Children as young as three unhappy with the way they look

Secret to instilling a love of fruit and veg in young children revealed

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

Lottery funding of £215 million awarded to early years projects

Gender gap crisis 'fails generation of boys', charity claims

Concern over cars and strangers keeps children indoors

Early years group calls for smacking ban

Child detention 'will be ended', says new government

Nursery food review to raise standards in food and drink in early years settings

New institute launches to connect childcare experts across the world

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