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Renewed call for early years curriculum to be extended up to seven

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

| Nursery World

Play and well-being must be at the centre of young children's development and learning after the coronavirus crisis, when children return to early years settings and school, say campaigners.

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

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

| Nursery World

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

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.

Scotland launches its first national play strategy

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Monday, June 24, 2013

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has launched the country's first play strategy, which recognises the vital role of play to children's well-being and development.

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

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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.

New early years social networking site

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

| Nursery World

A social networking website called the Unique Child Network has been launched by early years specialist Wendy Ellyatt, who said it focuses on 'the vital importance of the early years and the need to protect the rights of each child as a joyful and uniquely predisposed learner'.

Think tank warns of 'nursery NEETs'

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

| Nursery World

More than one in ten five-year-olds are at risk of disengaging from education when they start school, according to a new report.

Petition calls for a more joined-up approach between health and education

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

| Nursery World

A new petition calls for the Government's Health and Education departments to work more closely together to tackle 'critical issues' affecting children's development.

Hunt blames smartphones for children 'not speaking properly'

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

| Nursery World

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has said that smartphone use among parents is to blame for children’s speech and language delays.

Interview: Professor Andy Dickerson and Dr Gurleen Popli The University of Sheffield

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Friday, June 22, 2012

| Nursery World

Review calls for crackdown on pornographic images to protect children

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Friday, February 26, 2010

| Nursery World

Children should be taught 'digital literacy' from the age of five, a new Home Office-commissioned report into the sexualisation of children recommends today.

Conference to tackle gender imbalance in early years workforce

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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

| Nursery World

A conference on engaging men in the early years will be held at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford later this month.

Baseline protest group calls for assessment review after DfE U-turn

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Monday, April 11, 2016

| Nursery World

The Better Without Baseline Coalition is calling for a review of assessment and accountability for the early years following the scrapping of Baseline as a progress measure.

Long-term effect of poverty on children's development revealed

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

| Nursery World

New research has established a link between persistent poverty and a negative impact on children's cognitive development.

Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

| Nursery World

More than 1,700 academics, Reception and nursery teachers, early years practitioners, parents, headteachers, union leaders, and MPs have signed a letter expressing concern about Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report.

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

| Nursery World

Children are missing out on vital speech and language therapy and starting school without the language skills they need, according to new research by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

| Nursery World

The London Mayor and singer Peter Andre have launched a new literacy project to support three-to-five-year-olds in the capital.

Two-year-old pilot study finds high-quality settings make a difference

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

| Nursery World

Five-year-olds who took part in the initial two-year-old pilot of free early education places did no better at school at the end of the Reception year than other children, a Government study has found.

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

| Nursery World

Reforms to increase ratios to allow nursery staff and childminder to look after more children are at odds with Government policy to foster close one-to-one bonds with children, an early years expert will say today.

Government dismisses MPs' call for national early intervention strategy

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Friday, February 8, 2019

| Nursery World

MPs have been left 'frustrated' by the Government's rejection of a new national early intervention strategy to tackle childhood adversity and trauma.

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Renewed call for early years curriculum to be extended up to seven

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

Andrea Leadsom launches new early years podcast

Scotland launches its first national play strategy

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

New early years social networking site

Think tank warns of 'nursery NEETs'

Petition calls for a more joined-up approach between health and education

Hunt blames smartphones for children 'not speaking properly'

Interview: Professor Andy Dickerson and Dr Gurleen Popli The University of Sheffield

Review calls for crackdown on pornographic images to protect children

Conference to tackle gender imbalance in early years workforce

Baseline protest group calls for assessment review after DfE U-turn

Long-term effect of poverty on children's development revealed

Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

Two-year-old pilot study finds high-quality settings make a difference

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

Government dismisses MPs' call for national early intervention strategy

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