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

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.

Call for midwives to be based in children's centres

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

| Nursery World

The charity 4Children is calling for midwives and health visitors be based at children’s centres, after a poll revealed that a quarter of mothers-to-be found out information about pregnancy from a children’s centre.

Children's centres should be used to help tackle family breakdown

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

| Nursery World

A new think tank report calls for children’s centres to be turned into 'family hubs' to improve child outcomes.

Conservatives 'pose a real threat' to Sure Start, warns Labour

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Over 1,000 Sure Start centres could close if the Conservatives win the general election, the Labour party has warned.

MPs back sugar tax to fight obesity

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Monday, November 30, 2015

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A 20 per cent tax on sugary drinks should be brought in to help fight childhood obesity, MPs say.

Alan Milburn urges Government to tackle low pay

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report calls for a different approach to tackling in-work poverty as the number of families living below the breadline continues to rise.

Government ploughed millions into Kids Company despite concerns

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

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Collapsed charity Kids Company received at least £42 million from the Government despite repeated concerns about the way it was being run, an official spending watchdog has found.

Peers urged not to 'sideline' child poverty measures

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

| Nursery World

The End Child Poverty Coalition is calling on the House of Lords to ensure the Government continues to report on income-related child poverty measures.