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Charity calls for action to reduce attainment gap between Scotland's richest and poorest children

Thursday, May 8, 2014

| Nursery World

A new report calls for more focused interventions to close the attainment gap between children from high and low-income households.

Call for midwives to be based in children's centres

News

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

| Nursery World

The charity 4Children is calling for midwives and health visitors be based at children’s centres, after a poll revealed that a quarter of mothers-to-be found out information about pregnancy from a children’s centre.

Children's centres should be used to help tackle family breakdown

News

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

| Nursery World

A new think tank report calls for children’s centres to be turned into 'family hubs' to improve child outcomes.

Conservatives 'pose a real threat' to Sure Start, warns Labour

News

Thursday, April 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Over 1,000 Sure Start centres could close if the Conservatives win the general election, the Labour party has warned.

MPs back sugar tax to fight obesity

News

Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

A 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks should be brought in to help fight childhood obesity, MPs say.

Alan Milburn urges Government to tackle low pay

News

Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report calls for a different approach to tackling in-work poverty as the number of families living below the breadline continues to rise.

Government ploughed millions into Kids Company despite concerns

News

Thursday, October 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Collapsed charity Kids Company received at least £42 million from the Government despite repeated concerns about the way it was being run, an official spending watchdog has found.

Peers urged not to 'sideline' child poverty measures

News

Thursday, November 12, 2015

| Nursery World

The End Child Poverty Coalition is calling on the House of Lords to ensure the Government continues to report on income-related child poverty measures.

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.

Children's centres: Where next?

Opinion

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Lisa Harker, head of Strategy Unit, NSPCC, calls for children's centres services to be refocused on supporting children under the age of two

Early years manifesto

Opinion

Monday, May 15, 2017

| Nursery World

In the run-up to the general election, our columnist Natalie Perera has some advice for the next Prime Minister.

Early years should focus on needs of different ethnic groups to boost social mobility

News

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

| Nursery World

The DfE should fund support for home learning for poor parents and those from ethnic groups that do less well in the EYFS, the Social Mobility Commission recommends.

Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow

News

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

| Nursery World

Police and transport workers will be eligible for a loan up to £1,500 to pay for upfront childcare costs, which Sadiq Khan says are stopping mothers returning to work.

Early years crucial to life chances strategy

News

Thursday, May 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Plans set out in the Queen’s Speech to focus on improving life chances for disadvantaged families will not work unless the Government tackles child poverty, charities say.