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Interview - Benita Refson, Chief executive of Place2Be

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Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Place2Be is a national children's charity that provides school-based emotional and mental health support services.

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

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Monday, March 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Children from low-income families should have more support in the early years to tackle their speech, language and communication needs says a cross-party group of MPs and peers.

Children and Families Bill: second reading

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Monday, February 25, 2013

| Nursery World

The second reading of the Children and Families Bill is taking place in the House of Commons.

New resources to support families with personal budgets

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

| Nursery World

KIDS, a charity for disabled children and young people, has launched a free suite of resources to support families in the move to personal budgets.

Government-funded report focuses on early intervention to help children with SEN

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

| Nursery World

The recommendations of the Better Communication Research Programme (BCRP), the largest ever programme of research into children's speech, language and communication services in the UK, put an emphasis on early intervention, close involvement of families and joint commissioning of services across education, health and social care to support children with speech, language and communication needs.

MPs' report on special educational needs says draft bill 'lacks detail'

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

| Nursery World

A committee of MPs has welcomed the overall direction of the Government's proposed legislation to reform provision for children with special educational needs (SEN), but warns that the draft legislation lacks significant detail, making it impossible to assess the impact of the proposals.

Families with disabled children travel more than 4,000 miles a year to access services

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

| Nursery World

Disabled and children's charities are calling on the Government to include within its Children and Families Bill a duty to provide local services for families with disabled children that are inclusive and accessible.

Special educational needs reforms set out

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

| Nursery World

The Government has published a number of draft provisions to its Green Paper on special educational needs, aimed at improving support for children and their parents.

Increase in under-fives diagnosed with SEN

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Monday, July 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The number of pre-school children with statements of special educational needs has risen in the past four years, according to new Government figures.

Parents will control personal budgets for children with special educational needs

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

| Nursery World

Parents of children with special educational needs will be given a new legal right to buy in care to support their children, rather than using local authority providers, in plans announced today.

Children's minister launches 500,000 scholarship scheme for SEN support staff

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

| Nursery World

A new Government scholarship scheme for teaching assistants who work with children with special educational needs and disabilities will pay up to 2,000 towards the costs of taking a degree-level qualification.

Disabled children face long wait for support

News

Thursday, March 22, 2012

| Nursery World

Disabled children in some areas have to wait over a year for a wheelchair, a national review into health care services has found.

Budget 2012: Families with disabled children exempt from changes to Working Tax Credits

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

| Nursery World

Families with disabled children will now be exempt from changes to Working Tax Credit rules, following today's budget.

Interview - Jean Gross

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The outgoing communication champion, who this week published a final report.

Fears that disabled children will lose out in NHS reforms

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

| Nursery World

A new report is calling on the Government to embed child health as an NHS priority in light of concerns that disabled children's needs will not be met through planned changes to the health service.

Parents of disabled children face childcare crisis

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Friday, October 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Parents of disabled children struggle to find suitable childcare for their children in the holidays, a survey reveals.

DfE questions future of eCAF assessment

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

| Nursery World

The National eCAF system which allows practitioners to electronically create, store and share a child's details under the Common Assessment Framework, could be scrapped if local councils do not respond positively to a letter from the DfE questioning its effectiveness.

Schools require 'new training on special needs', study finds

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

New teaching methods are needed to help schools cope with a growing number of children who have increasingly complex special needs and disabilities, according to new research.

Safeguarding boards get advice on childminders

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

The National Childminding Association has launched new advice for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) to help registered childminders.

Integrated universal early education and care from birth is key to tackling poverty, EU says

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years services should be available for all and not targeted at vulnerable families, new guidelines for EU countries state.

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Interview - Benita Refson, Chief executive of Place2Be

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

Children and Families Bill: second reading

New resources to support families with personal budgets

Government-funded report focuses on early intervention to help children with SEN

MPs' report on special educational needs says draft bill 'lacks detail'

Families with disabled children travel more than 4,000 miles a year to access services

Special educational needs reforms set out

Increase in under-fives diagnosed with SEN

Parents will control personal budgets for children with special educational needs

Children's minister launches 500,000 scholarship scheme for SEN support staff

Disabled children face long wait for support

Budget 2012: Families with disabled children exempt from changes to Working Tax Credits

Interview - Jean Gross

Fears that disabled children will lose out in NHS reforms

Parents of disabled children face childcare crisis

DfE questions future of eCAF assessment

Schools require 'new training on special needs', study finds

Safeguarding boards get advice on childminders

Integrated universal early education and care from birth is key to tackling poverty, EU says

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