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New Start 4 Life campaign to support parents bonding with their baby

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

| Nursery World

A new Government campaign aims to support parents in nurturing their bond with their baby.

Early Education launches events to address gaps in professional development when working with birth to threes

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

| Nursery World

These series of events will highlight the importance of quality – rather than quantity – of provision for the new entitlements for children from nine months to two years.

Covid-19 pandemic having a lasting impact on children's development - report

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report finds that the ‘wide-reaching’ impacts of the pandemic are far from over for the youngest in society.

Call for dedicated services to support early trauma

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

| Nursery World

Most early years professionals understand that children’s earliest experiences are vital to their development, but more than 80 percent believe the Government is not doing enough to provide support to families, according to a survey ahead of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week.

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.

'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

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

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.

Babies recognise phrases before they can talk, study finds

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Thursday, April 8, 2021

| Nursery World

One-year-olds can recognise combinations of words, such as ‘clap your hands’, before they have uttered their first word, new research from the University of Edinburgh has revealed.

Learn about the science of brain development

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Monday, December 14, 2020

| Nursery World

A free, online course about how babies’ brains develop has been launched by the University of Oxford.

Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill, public health minister

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| Nursery World

We talk to Andrea Leadsom and Jo Churchill about progress on the Early Years Healthy Development Review

Toddlers from musical households have 'better language skills' - study

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

| Nursery World

An ‘enriched home musical environment’ can support language development in toddlers, according to new research.

NSPCC launches nationwide programme of activities for babies

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

| Nursery World

The NSPCC is calling on early years practitioners to help promote a campaign that encourages better childhood brain development.

Avoiding the ‘terrible twos’ during lockdown

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Happy babies can get through the ‘terrible twos’ with minimal behavioural problems if they are supported by a flexible method of parenting, a leading Cambridge academic told Nursery World.

Leaving a baby to cry has no negative effects on child development

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

| Nursery World

Leaving a baby to ‘cry it out’ has no adverse effects on child development and attachment, according to new research.

SEED: mixed findings from latest research following 6,000 two-year-olds into school

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Friday, February 21, 2020

| Nursery World

Researchers have found a link between the amount of time children spend in group daycare and poorer social and emotional development in Year 1, while also finding that disadvantaged children benefit the most from at least 20 hours a week of formal childcare.

Nursery group staff trained in babywearing

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Tops Day Nurseries has launched a new babywearing project across its 31 settings.

Ban screen time for under-twos, expert says

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

| Nursery World

A call for Government to bring in guidance for 'zero screen time' for babies will be made at an infant well-being conference today.

'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

| Nursery World

The Health and Social Care Committee wants the Government to produce a long-term strategy for the first 1,000 days of life to improve support and services for children and families.

Parents putting off toilet training with some relying on nurseries

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

| Nursery World

More children are being toilet trained later, according to a new survey of early years staff.

Childcare may prevent emotional and behavioural problems later

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

| Nursery World

Children who spend some time in formal childcare are less likely to have behavioural problems than those that are cared for solely at home, according to new research.

Scotland's baby box to be put on display for future generations

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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Scotland's baby box will be preserved in history at Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood.

Exposure to germs could prevent childhood leukaemia

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Exposing children to common harmless bugs, for example at nursery, could help prevent the most common type of childhood cancer.

SEED: qualifications and CPD highlighted in quality report

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Friday, December 8, 2017

| Nursery World

We summarise the latest findings from the Government-funded Study of Early Education and Development (SEED).

SEED: Early years quality on the rise across the country

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Thursday, December 7, 2017

| Nursery World

The quality of early education and childcare in nurseries has risen over the past 15 years, and staff qualification levels appear to have improved, according to the latest findings of the Government-funded SEED study.

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New Start 4 Life campaign to support parents bonding with their baby

Early Education launches events to address gaps in professional development when working with birth to threes

Covid-19 pandemic having a lasting impact on children's development - report

Call for dedicated services to support early trauma

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

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

Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

Andrea Leadsom launches new early years podcast

Babies recognise phrases before they can talk, study finds

Learn about the science of brain development

Interview: Andrea Leadsom MP and Jo Churchill, public health minister

Toddlers from musical households have 'better language skills' - study

NSPCC launches nationwide programme of activities for babies

Avoiding the ‘terrible twos’ during lockdown

Leaving a baby to cry has no negative effects on child development

SEED: mixed findings from latest research following 6,000 two-year-olds into school

Nursery group staff trained in babywearing

Ban screen time for under-twos, expert says

'Government must kick start an early years revolution', urge MPs

Parents putting off toilet training with some relying on nurseries

Childcare may prevent emotional and behavioural problems later

Scotland's baby box to be put on display for future generations

Exposure to germs could prevent childhood leukaemia

SEED: qualifications and CPD highlighted in quality report

SEED: Early years quality on the rise across the country

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