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4Children sets out plans for 'game-changing' children and family hubs

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

| Nursery World

4Children is calling for the transformation of Sure Start children’s centres into extended ‘Children and Family Hubs'.

Poor joint working hampers support to children and families

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Friday, November 21, 2014

| Nursery World

Families with young children are caught up in a complex and unco-ordinated health and education system, according to a new report into early intervention.

Children as young as seven can show early signs of 'gang violence'

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

| Nursery World

A new series of reports call for early intervention to be made a priority to prevent children as young as seven at risk of gang involvement and youth violence turning to crime.

Children's rights stitched into quilt

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

| Nursery World

A two-metre square quilt designed and produced by Traveller parents and children has been unveiled in Belfast as a celebration of children’s rights.

Inquiry into early years intervention and life chances gets mixed reaction

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Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

A joint inquiry into the role early years intervention plays in shaping lives has been launched to inform the Government’s life chances strategy.

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have delayed access to funded early years education, new research from the LSE suggests.

Premature babies missing crucial two-year check-ups

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Monday, November 9, 2015

| Nursery World

Almost half of very premature babies are not receiving vital developmental checks, figures show.

Funded early education hours not enough to 'narrow the gap'

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

| Nursery World

Parents with young children who work 20 hours a week or more should be entitled to up to 25 hours a week of free early education, a think tank has proposed.

Troubled Families programme to expand focus to under-fives

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government’s Troubled Families programme is to be expanded to help an additional 400,000 families, including those with children under five.

Online activity makes children happier, poll finds

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

| Nursery World

English children are ranked ninth of 11 countries for wellbeing, according to a new report.

Early years charity opens new family visitor centre in prison

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Early Years Scotland has opened a new family visitor centre at HMP Low Moss.

Mayor launches early years hubs to boost childcare for disadvantaged families

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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

| Nursery World

The Mayor of London has named the three areas that will take part in the new Early Years Hubs scheme to drive the take-up of funded two-year-old places across the capital.

Working parents 'pushed to breaking point' by long hours culture

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

| Nursery World

New research suggests that parents are having to turn down promotions and stall their careers because the UK's long hours culture is putting a strain on family life.

Better Start Bradford launches environmental project

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Friday, January 26, 2018

| Nursery World

A new scheme in Bradford aims to develop safer and healthier places for children under four to play and walk, and increase access to green spaces.

Exposure to germs could prevent childhood leukaemia

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Exposing children to common harmless bugs, for example at nursery, could help prevent the most common type of childhood cancer.

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children in the last year of primary school severely obese is almost double that of those in Reception, according to a new analysis by the Local Government Association.

Researchers to study effect of indoor air pollution on children

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Thursday, June 21, 2018

| Nursery World

The adverse effects of indoor air pollution on children in the UK are to be investigated for the first time.

'Alarming' rise in child poverty forecast

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The number of children living in absolute poverty will increase by 600,000 between 2010 and 2015 according to analysis by the Child Poverty Action Group.

New eLearning package to help simplify personal budgets

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

| Nursery World

KIDS, a charity for disabled children and young people, has launched an eLearning package aimed at explaining the key points about personalisation, personal budgets and how this can affect family life.

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a £2m pilot to look at ways to support disadvantaged children during the school holidays by providing meals and activities.

Better-off families gain £300 a month more than poor families from Government childcare policies

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Monday, April 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Families on low-incomes and lone- parent families benefit less than better-off families from the 30-hours and Tax-Free Childcare, according to a new analysis.

Call for 20mph limit in school areas

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| Nursery World

Only 12 per cent of roads around schools have a 20 mph speed limit, according to a survey by the road safety charity Brake.

Disadvantaged two-year-olds missing out on early education, finds report

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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

| Nursery World

The youngest, most disadvantaged children are the least likely to access early education, a new report from the OECD has found.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

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Monday, October 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Local primary school children are contributing ideas to the multi-million-pound revamp of the V&A Museum of Childhood in plans to make it the ‘world’s most joyful museum for children’.

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4Children sets out plans for 'game-changing' children and family hubs

Poor joint working hampers support to children and families

Children as young as seven can show early signs of 'gang violence'

Children's rights stitched into quilt

Inquiry into early years intervention and life chances gets mixed reaction

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

Premature babies missing crucial two-year check-ups

Funded early education hours not enough to 'narrow the gap'

Troubled Families programme to expand focus to under-fives

Online activity makes children happier, poll finds

Early years charity opens new family visitor centre in prison

Mayor launches early years hubs to boost childcare for disadvantaged families

Working parents 'pushed to breaking point' by long hours culture

Better Start Bradford launches environmental project

Exposure to germs could prevent childhood leukaemia

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

Researchers to study effect of indoor air pollution on children

'Alarming' rise in child poverty forecast

New eLearning package to help simplify personal budgets

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

Better-off families gain £300 a month more than poor families from Government childcare policies

Call for 20mph limit in school areas

Disadvantaged two-year-olds missing out on early education, finds report

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

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