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New tool to boost early years language

Thursday, September 24, 2015

| Nursery World

A new improvement tool to help staff in early years settings foster children’s language, literacy and communication is being developed.

Nursery Management: Poverty - Destined for failure?

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners know that part of their job is reducing the disadvantage gap. But what do they really think of poor children? Dr Donald Simpson, who has led a two-year study into practitioners'perceptions of poverty, reports.

Low-income parents on the brink of a 'financial family crisis'

News

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

| Nursery World

Parents earning the minimum wage are on the 'brink of a new crisis in family finances' that will leave many stranded when meeting no-frills costs, warns a new report.

Local authorities urged to tackle child poverty in the early years

News

Monday, July 20, 2015

| Nursery World

England's children’s commissioner is calling for a focus on early intervention and investment to cut poverty for pre-school children.

Government scraps Child Poverty Act

News

Thursday, July 2, 2015

| Nursery World

The existing measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act will be replaced with a new duty to report on worklessness and educational attainment.

'Thousands of children' in Scotland unable to take up their free place

News

Friday, May 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Parents in Scotland have delivered a survey to the First Minister claiming that thousands of children are missing out on their free nursery place.

Conservatives to 'look again' at delaying school start for summer-borns

News

Thursday, April 30, 2015

| Nursery World

A Conservative Government would revisit the issue of parents being able to defer their summer-born child’s school start.

Projects for disadvantage get share of £1m fund

News

Monday, April 6, 2015

| Nursery World

Six projects designed to raise the attainment of disadvantaged children from the age of two have been granted a share of £1m in funding.

MPs set out vision for '1001 days'

News

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Supporting parental and child wellbeing through pregnancy to the first two years of a child’s life should be viewed as a key priority and attract as much spending as the defence budget, former children’s minister Tim Loughton has said.

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

News

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has launched a new parent campaign to highlight the cash value of early education places.

Taking the trouble

Opinion

Friday, October 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The Troubled Families programme needs to work with early years practitioners and organisations, says Maureen Longley of Interface Enterprises

Scottish Labour party reveals plans to cap childcare costs

News

Friday, October 10, 2014

| Nursery World

The Scottish Labour leader has proposed capping childcare costs at 10 per cent of the median income to help families.

How one LA is delivering funded places for twos

News

Monday, October 6, 2014

| Nursery World

Now that 40 per cent of two-year-olds are eligible for funded places, we look at how one local authority is delivering and supporting the programme.

Working Mum: Club rules

Features

Monday, August 11, 2014

| Nursery World

Lack of suitable out-of-school provision presents difficulties for parents forced to juggle responsibilities, says Working Mum.

Tax-free childcare to be run by a single operator

News

Monday, August 11, 2014

| Nursery World

The contract for running the Tax-free childcare (TFC) scheme was awarded last week to National Savings and Investments (NS&I), which will be the sole operator to deliver the childcare accounts when the scheme is introduced in autumn 2015.