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Childcare minister hosts reception for the sector

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

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Education and childcare minister Sam Gyimah invited guests from across the early years sector to a formal reception in London's Lancaster House yesterday.

Organised crime probe targets 12 nurseries involved in money laundering

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Twelve nurseries in and around Glasgow are being investigated by police following suspicions that they may have links to organised crime.

Nurseries 'crying out' for advice on feeding children

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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Nurseries need clear guidance and practical day-to-day advice on what to feed young children, according to Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-School Learning Alliance.

Childcare voucher firms join forces to promote best practice

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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Six childcare voucher companies have joined forces to launch an industry body and promote best practice within the sector.

Analysis: Back pain shown to afflict majority of practitioners

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Not only are early years workers suffering physical damage on the job, but many assume that it just goes with the territory and neither complain nor seek help. Caroline Roberts reports.

Cool response on two-year-olds' free places

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Friday, June 8, 2012

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Two thousand more two-year-olds will be eligible for a free early education place from September, a year earlier than originally planned.

Early years research programme seeks settings to join panel

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Monday, May 22, 2017

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Research programme About Early Years (AEY), run by Ceeda, is calling on settings to sign up for its panel to contribute to data collection.

New association will provide guidance for childminders

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Friday, August 31, 2012

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A new association exclusively for childminders is to be launched this month, founded by two early years practitioners, including a former Nursery World award winner.

Ofsted statistics show continuing drop in childminder numbers

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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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There were 500 fewer childminders registered with Ofsted in the last quarter, continuing the trend of steep decline.

Spotlight on ... Mary Harris

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Friday, September 28, 2012

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Position: Retired nursery nurse, George Dent Nursery School, Bishop Auckland, County Durham

Extra £1.3bn for schools no long-term solution to funding crisis, say teachers

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

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Teaching unions have dismissed the £1.3 billion earmarked for schools by the education secretary as ‘smoke and mirrors’ and insufficient to make up losses.

EYFS REVIEW: Second consultation deadline is nearing

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Monday, January 9, 2012

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The early years sector has only until 19 January to respond to the Department for Education's second consultation on proposed changes to some of the learning and development requirements in the EYFS.

From home to nursery for childminder

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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A childminder's home childcare business is expanding into a purpose-built nursery setting.

250 Sure Start children's centres at risk of closure

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Around 250 children's centres are at risk of closing this year and up to a thousand have warned staff that they are at risk of redundancy, new research has found.

Cuts Watch: What's happening to children's centres around the country

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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What's happening to children's centres around the country

Councils to publish what they spend on children's centres, children's minister confirms

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Local authorities will have to publish information about how much money they are spending on children's centres as part of the Government's policy vision for Sure Start.

Cuts Watch: Hub and spoke plan for reduced centres

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Plans to cut 1.7m from children's centres in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham have been put out for consultation by the council.

Comedy explores the pre-school world

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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A playwright who owned her own nursery for 13 years has turned the stresses and strains of an Ofsted inspection into a comedy, where yoghurt is banned because of health and safety fears.