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Arts campaigners condemn school cuts

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  • Tuesday, January 11, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The abolition of a flagship programme designed to foster creativity in children has been condemned by teachers and ambassadors of the arts as threatening the education of the most vulnerable children.

Politicians 'misuse science to push own agenda'

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  • Monday, September 19, 2011
  • | Nursery World
The extent to which studies of infant brain development have been misinterpreted and exploited by politicians to push a political agenda on to parenting were debated at a conference at Kent University.

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

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  • Monday, November 13, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Measures of children’s progress – especially one-off assessments such as the baseline in Reception – are flawed, meaning neither policy-makers nor children benefit, say Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts-Holmes

Nursery owner takes on global early years role

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  • Tuesday, June 26, 2018
  • | Nursery World
David Wright, co-owner of Paint Pots Nurseries in Southampton, has been appointed England’s national representative for the World Forum Foundation on Early Care and Education.

Campaigners speak out against 'erosion of childhood'

    News
  • Monday, September 26, 2011
  • | Nursery World
More than 200 childhood experts are calling for action to protect children from the 'erosion of childhood' by commercial forces and modern technology, and for a play-based curriculum in nurseries and primary schools for children under six.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Children's communications skills will be the focus of a 'National Year' campaign in 2011 spearheaded by the Communication Trust, a 38-strong consortium of private and voluntary sector providers, set up by Afasic, BT Better World Campaign, the Council for Disabled Children and I CAN.

Interview - Sue Atkins, Parenting expert

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  • Monday, August 22, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Sue Atkins talks to Sue Learner about parenting and discipline, in the wake of the riots that spread destruction through the streets of London and most of the major English cities.

Analysis: Why early intervention needs to be a priority

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  • Tuesday, May 25, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Even before the General Election, politicians from different parties were uniting in calls for investment in early intervention that could reduce society's ills and costs over the long term. Laura Marcus looks at the possibilities for making it happen.

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