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Michael Rosen to promote the importance of reading to under-fives in new role

Thursday, February 24, 2022

| Nursery World

Children’s author Michael Rosen is to be appointed as BookTrust’s new Writer in Residence – a role which he will use to promote the importance of reading and rhyming with young children.

Health inequalities between disadvantaged and advantaged under-fives increasing

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

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Progress in improving the health of under-fives has ‘stalled’ in the last five years, particularly infant mortality and obesity, which is getting worse, according to findings from a new report.

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

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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.

Scotland's Baby Box delivered to 200,000 new parents

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Monday, November 29, 2021

| Nursery World

A total of 200,000 expectant parents in Scotland have received a Baby Box, under the devolved government’s scheme aimed at tackling inequality and promoting health.

New research illustrates the negative impact of the pandemic on young children

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Friday, November 26, 2021

| Nursery World

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened food insecurity among families, children’s physical activity levels have declined, and fewer infants have received their routine vaccinations.

Cross-party Lords urge ministers to reverse cuts to early years services

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Friday, November 19, 2021

| Nursery World

A House of Lords committee are calling for the Government to restore funding for early years services and youth support to 2010 levels to protect vulnerable children.

Parents still struggling to access 'essential' services

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

| Nursery World

According to new research from a group of charities, many routine health visitor checks continue to be over the phone, drop-in clinics are no longer operating in some areas and baby and toddler groups have either stopped running or are hard to access.

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

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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

4.3 million parents could be without access to early support services

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

| Nursery World

Millions of parents are missing out on, or struggling to access, early years support services due to the pandemic, according to Action for Children, which is calling on the Government to implement a 'minimum service guarantee'.

Families with children under five face ‘steep rises’ in poverty, warns research

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

| Nursery World

A new evidence review, published today by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that more than one in three children in the UK are living in poverty, amounting to 2.2 million under-fives.

Coronavirus: Services for babies 'stretched' and failing to reach many families

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

| Nursery World

The pandemic continues to have a ‘significant’ impact on babies, their families and the services that work with them, according to a new report from the First 1001 Days Movement.

Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

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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

Concerns that council plans to cut health visitors will 'cause preventable harm'

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Friday, August 20, 2021

| Nursery World

Organisations that advocate for women's health and unions are worried that proposals by two councils to reduce their health visiting teams will put children and families at risk.

Marcus Rashford urges more low-income families to sign up for food voucher scheme

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Thursday, August 5, 2021

| Nursery World

In an open letter, the footballer and child food poverty campaigner calls on health professionals to spread the word about the Government's Healthy Start scheme, in a bid to increase take-up among eligible families.

Interview - Clare Stead and Laura Outhwaite

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

Findings from a study on the effectiveness of the Oliiki app suggests it has ‘significant benefits’ on parental self-efficacy in the first 1,000 days of life. The research found that mums and dads who used the app over a four-week period had greater belief that they can be successful as a parent.

Rise in hospital admissions for Covid among unvaccinated pregnant women

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Friday, July 30, 2021

| Nursery World

Doctors and midwives are urging pregnant women to have their Covid-19 vaccination as soon as possible, following a rise in the number of unvaccinated women being admitted to hospital with severe coronavirus.

New pilot project to encourage disadvantaged families to visit their local library

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

| Nursery World

A project to encourage families with children under five to use their local library and make sharing stories a ‘regular part of life’ has been launched by reading charity BookTrust.

Norovirus on the rise in childcare settings

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Friday, July 23, 2021

| Nursery World

Official data shows that cases of the vomiting bug have been spreading ‘rapidly’ among pre-school children in nurseries and childcare settings in England over the past few weeks.

Andrea Leadsom launches new early years podcast

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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.

Boris Johnson's food tsar calls for sugar and salt tax to fund free school meal expansion

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

| Nursery World

Henry Dimbleby is urging ministers to introduce a new tax on sugar and salt to improve the nation's health, and fund the expansion of free school meals for an extra 1.1 million children.

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Michael Rosen to promote the importance of reading to under-fives in new role

Health inequalities between disadvantaged and advantaged under-fives increasing

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

Scotland's Baby Box delivered to 200,000 new parents

New research illustrates the negative impact of the pandemic on young children

Cross-party Lords urge ministers to reverse cuts to early years services

Parents still struggling to access 'essential' services

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

4.3 million parents could be without access to early support services

Families with children under five face ‘steep rises’ in poverty, warns research

Coronavirus: Services for babies 'stretched' and failing to reach many families

Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

Concerns that council plans to cut health visitors will 'cause preventable harm'

Marcus Rashford urges more low-income families to sign up for food voucher scheme

Interview - Clare Stead and Laura Outhwaite

Rise in hospital admissions for Covid among unvaccinated pregnant women

New pilot project to encourage disadvantaged families to visit their local library

Norovirus on the rise in childcare settings

Andrea Leadsom launches new early years podcast

Boris Johnson's food tsar calls for sugar and salt tax to fund free school meal expansion

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