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Coronavirus: Government launches campaign to reassure parents schools are safe

Monday, August 17, 2020

| Nursery World

The Government has today launched its #backtoschoolsafely campaign to reassure parents that schools are ready for all children to return in September.

Parents urged to make sure their children's vaccinations are up-to-date

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Saturday, August 15, 2020

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The Local Government Association is concerned that children may have missed their routine vaccinations during COVID-19 lockdown.

Coronavirus: Soft play centres to reopen

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Friday, August 14, 2020

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Indoor soft play centres can reopen from tomorrow, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced.

Crowdfunder campaign hits target to deliver inclusive children's books to nurseries and schools

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

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Books representative of a multi-cultural and diverse society are to be delivered to nurseries and schools in the next academic year thanks to a campaign hitting its fundraising target.

Mulberry Bush gains praise for staying open amid coronavirus cases

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

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Mulberry Bush Nursery Whitefield has stayed open, after three staff members and a child tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month.

Touch as important to child development as healthy food, research finds

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

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Touch is as essential to child development as nutrition, a report published as the UK emerges from national lockdown has found.

Early years attendance drops, latest official figures show

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Less than a half (46 per cent) of early years settings were open at the end of July, according to the latest statistics from the Department for Education.

30-hour offer reopens in Wales this month

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Wales’ Childcare offer of 30 hours a week, which was suspended to new parents in April, will reopen for applications from mid-August.

Teaching unions accused of thwarting plans to fully re-open schools in September

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Monday, August 10, 2020

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Teaching unions have drawn up a checklist of 200 demands to be met in order to safely re-open schools to all children next month.

LEYF running free holiday clubs to support the capital's most vulnerable children

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Friday, August 7, 2020

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London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) is hosting free holiday clubs to help children who are at risk of falling behind with their learning.

Coronavirus: Lockdown negatively affected babies' behaviour and development

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Friday, August 7, 2020

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A new report finds that the Coronavirus lockdown has been detrimental for babies and their parents and warns the effects could be long lasting.

NDNA and EPI launch joint research project on early years workforce

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Friday, August 7, 2020

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The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has launched a year-long research project with the Education Policy Institute (EPI) to look at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the early years workforce.

New toddler menu planner aims to instil healthy eating habits early on

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

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A new meal planner for toddlers has been launched to help parents provide their children with the right balance of foods and nutrients, and to help stop childhood obesity.

Early years services should be kept open and funding flexible in future lockdowns, says children's commissioner

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

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Early years settings, schools and children’s centres should be kept open 'wherever possible' in the event of lockdown due to Covid-19, the children’s commissioner for England has said.

Charity offers early years staff free places on its music course

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

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A music charity is offering free training to early years staff throughout the UK.

Early years employers urged to hire apprentices

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

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Nursery groups have welcomed the Government’s drive to encourage employers to take on apprentices by offering cash incentives.

Coronavirus: Government extends Tax-Free Childcare and 30-hour childcare eligibility

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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

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More than 55,000 parents have applied for 30 hour childcare places since the start of lockdown, according to the Department for Education, which is extending the eligibility criteria for families whose incomes may have dropped during the coronavirus pandemic.

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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One in 8 childcare workers is paid less than £5 an hour and many are forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, a report commissioned by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has found.

Looking forward from lockdown

Opinion

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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Bertram nursery group CEO Cary Rankin gives his personal reflections on the ups and downs of emerging from lockdown and the ins and outs of working towards a successful future.

Nannies in local lockdown areas told they must come to work

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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The British Association of Professional Nannies (BAPN) has warned that nannies’ lives are being put at risk due to exemptions under lockdown rules in the North of England that mean they can continue to work in families’ homes.