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Early relationships as a foundation for early education

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

| Nursery World

Sally Hogg of the Parent-Infant Foundation looks at the science behind early trauma and how practitioners can support children

Call for dedicated services to support early trauma

News

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

| Nursery World

Most early years professionals understand that children’s earliest experiences are vital to their development, but more than 80 percent believe the Government is not doing enough to provide support to families, according to a survey ahead of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.

Concerns vulnerable children are being let down due to 'stretched' health visiting services

News

Friday, December 3, 2021

| Nursery World

More than 40 per cent of health visitors are worried they ‘can’t do enough to safeguard babies and children’, according to new survey findings.

'Funding for children's speech and language has been sorely lacking'

News

Monday, October 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Up to 1.5 million children are at risk of speech and language delay, which is why their support needs to be at the heart of this week’s Spending Review, says Carol Payne, interim chief executive of I CAN, the children's communication charity

Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

News

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Delays to development checks and the introduction of non-face-to-face appointments due to the pandemic are hindering the effectiveness of the programme. Katy Morton reports

Andrea Leadsom launches new early years podcast

News

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

A new podcast series featuring stories of parents who have given birth during lockdown along with interviews with leading practitioners and politicians, has been launched by Andrea Leadsom MP, chair of the Early Years Healthy Development Review.

SEED: mixed findings from latest research following 6,000 two-year-olds into school

News

Friday, February 21, 2020

| Nursery World

Researchers have found a link between the amount of time children spend in group daycare and poorer social and emotional development in Year 1, while also finding that disadvantaged children benefit the most from at least 20 hours a week of formal childcare.

'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs

News

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

| Nursery World

The Health and Social Care Committee wants the Government to produce a long-term strategy for the first 1,000 days of life to improve support and services for children and families.

Scotland's baby box to be put on display for future generations

News

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Scotland's baby box will be preserved in history at Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood.

SEED: Government-funded study highlights value of early years education for all

News

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

| Nursery World

All children benefit from early education and care from the age of two, with those from poorer backgrounds likely to benefit even more, a major new report out today shows.

Children's 'red books' start to go online from April

News

Monday, February 13, 2017

| Nursery World

The ‘red book’, the paper-based personal child health record for under-fives, will be available online for London parents from April ahead of a national rollout.

Health campaign says young children should have three hours activity a day

News

Friday, July 29, 2016

| Nursery World

‘Every movement counts’ is the motto of a new Department of Health campaign to encourage children aged under five to be physically active for at least three hours a day.

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

News

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.

Why is the 1001 Critical Days Manifesto so important?

Opinion

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Tim Loughton MP calls for cross-party support and a policy rethink on supporting children in their earliest days, as a new report is launched

Early years experts join forces over later school start

News

Thursday, September 12, 2013

| Nursery World

A focus on 'school readiness', testing at an ever-earlier age, and the downgrading of play threaten 'profound damage' to a generation of children, a group of experts warns today.

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

News

Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

News

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

| Nursery World

Reforms to increase ratios to allow nursery staff and childminder to look after more children are at odds with Government policy to foster close one-to-one bonds with children, an early years expert will say today.

Babies are people

News

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

All peope have rights, so what about babies' rights? asks Penelope Leach Ph.D, C.Psychol, FBPsS

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

News

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The NSPCC is calling for babies' rights to be better protected under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), as part of its 'All Babies Count' campaign.

Jean Gross: education and health should work together to support children's speech and language

News

Monday, January 16, 2012

| Nursery World

Cuts across the country are a significant threat to vital speech and language services for children and young people, the outgoing communication champion has warned.

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Early relationships as a foundation for early education

Call for dedicated services to support early trauma

Concerns vulnerable children are being let down due to 'stretched' health visiting services

'Funding for children's speech and language has been sorely lacking'

Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

Andrea Leadsom launches new early years podcast

SEED: mixed findings from latest research following 6,000 two-year-olds into school

'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs

Scotland's baby box to be put on display for future generations

SEED: Government-funded study highlights value of early years education for all

Children's 'red books' start to go online from April

Health campaign says young children should have three hours activity a day

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

Why is the 1001 Critical Days Manifesto so important?

Early years experts join forces over later school start

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

Babies are people

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

Jean Gross: education and health should work together to support children's speech and language

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