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Government launches child protection review

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  • Tuesday, June 15, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove and children and families minister Tim Loughton last week invited Professor Eileen Munro from the London School of Economics to conduct an independent review of child protection and social work in England that will focus on how social workers can spend more time with vulnerable children.

Childminding Week has music theme

    News
  • Tuesday, May 11, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Registered childminders and nannies in England and Wales will be holding musical themed events to promote the benefits of home-based childcare in National Childminding Week from 12-19 June, organised by the NCMA.

New smacking rules omit nannies

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  • Tuesday, April 6, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Smacking is to be banned for all tutors and carers who work with children outside the family, including part-time educational settings, Sunday schools and madrassas, following a review.

Sure Start innovates in rural outreach

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  • Tuesday, March 16, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Play vans, fire stations and a children's centre on a military base are among the measures being used by West Northumberland Sure Start to improve outreach services in rural areas.

Think tank warns of 'nursery NEETs'

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • | Nursery World
More than one in ten five-year-olds are at risk of disengaging from education when they start school, according to a new report.

Councils given new advice on play provision

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  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A website to help local authorities create child-friendly communities in areas such as planning, designing and policing has been launched by Play England and SkillsActive.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

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  • 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.

Pre-schools forced to pull out of free entitlement

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  • Tuesday, February 9, 2010
  • | Nursery World
More than 1,000 funded places for three- and four-year-olds in Buckinghamshire could be lost because a group of pre-schools say they cannot remain sustainable without more funding when the free entitlement is extended to 15 hours in September.

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