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Labour pledges toothbrushing scheme for three- to five-year-olds in schools

Friday, October 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Labour has pledged to bring in supervised toothbrushing in schools for three- to-five-year olds as part of a wider ‘rescue plan for NHS dentistry’, ahead of the party’s conference in Liverpool.

Children missing out on free nursery and school milk

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Children are missing out on free milk as many early years settings and schools stopped claiming for the subsidy during the Covid pandemic, reveals new research.

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

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Monday, April 3, 2023

| Nursery World

The Food Foundation is calling on ministers to do more to raise awareness of the Healthy Start scheme and increase its value and eligibility, after it failed to meet the Government’s own target for take-up among low-income families.

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.

Campaign calls for EYFS to include sensory food play

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Friday, October 21, 2022

| Nursery World

Baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen has launched a national campaign calling on the Government to improve childhood nutrition by introducing sensory food play in all early years settings.

Call for settings to take part in early years nutrition survey

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

| Nursery World

The Early Years Alliance and nursery group the London Early Years Foundation have joined forces to launch a survey about food provision and nutrition in early years settings.

Post-Covid children's mental health services face rocketing rise in demand

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Saturday, July 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Children’s mental health services are ‘buckling under pressure’ in the wake of the pandemic, says Anne Longfield’s Commission on Young Lives, which calls on the two Conservative leadership candidates to pledge a £1 billion recovery package.

Analysis: Early years settings step up support for families as cost of living crisis hits

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

| Nursery World

Vitamin Angels UK extends partnership with NDNA as nurseries increase food donations and other support to struggling families and members of staff. Catherine Gaunt reports

Nursery group calls for funding to improve access to high-quality nursery food for vulnerable children

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

| Nursery World

The London Early Years Foundation is calling on the Government to invest in nursery food provision to support families living in poverty and improve young children's health.

Monkeypox listed as a notifiable disease in UK as cases rise

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

| Nursery World

From today (8 June), Monkeypox is recognised in law as a notifiable infectious disease under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010.

Teachers call for universal free school meals in England

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Teaching unions and head teachers have written to the chancellor and the education secretary calling for free school meals to be extended, as families struggle with the cost of living crisis.

Nurseries ban use of Nivea sun cream due to formula containing almond oil

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Friday, April 22, 2022

| Nursery World

A warning that some Nivea sun creams for children now contain almond oil has gone viral on social media among the early years community.

Coronavirus: Sector expresses frustration over expanded symptom list as free testing ends

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have expressed frustration that the expansion of the official list of Covid symptoms has come just days after free testing ended in England.

Government to end regular Covid testing of children in schools

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Thursday, March 31, 2022

| Nursery World

After tomorrow (Friday) only children with ‘a high temperature’ will be advised to self-isolate for three days, as the Government ends Covid testing in schools.

Charity launches free parenting app with personalised daily content for fathers

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

Dads can now receive bespoke, daily information on all aspects of fatherhood, thanks to a new app developed by charity Best Beginnings.

Government publishes new Covid-19 measures for nurseries, childminders and schools amid Omicron concern

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Monday, November 29, 2021

| Nursery World

The Government has announced additional safety measures for early years settings and schools to prevent the spread of the new Coronavirus Omicron variant.

Outdoor play is 'every child's right'

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Every child has a right to spend time outdoors, said Professor Jan White, speaking at Nursery World’s outdoor play conference.

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

Charities call on health secretary to end ‘baby blindspot’

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Thursday, July 22, 2021

| Nursery World

More than 60 members of the First 1001 Days Movement have today jointly written to the new health secretary Sajid Javid to highlight the impact of the pandemic on babies and their families.

A & E departments report dramatic rise in young children with fever

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Friday, June 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Hospital emergency departments have seen a surge in the number of young children being brought in with mild fever by anxious parents - three times the number for June last year.

Campaigners call for Government to do more to tackle air pollution around nurseries and schools

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Thursday, June 17, 2021

| Nursery World

More than a quarter (27 per cent) of UK schools - including nursery, primary, secondary and sixth forms - are in areas above World Health Organisation (WHO) air pollution limits, research launched for today’s Clean Air Day 2021 (Thursday) has found.

A week of school sports days planned

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Thursday, June 3, 2021

| Nursery World

A national summer of school sports days is being planned following a year in which most were cancelled due to the pandemic, the Youth Sport Trust has announced.

Labour calls for free school meals in school holidays, as eligibility rises

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

| Nursery World

More than half a million children have become eligible for free school meals during the pandemic, Labour estimates.

NDNA supports campaign to explore a ‘colourful rainbow of fruit and vegetables’

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

| Nursery World

More than half of children under the age of four eat two or less portions of fruit and vegetables a day, a survey by children’s food brand, Organix, has found.

‘Frightening’ statistics on children’s mental health revealed in MPs' cross-party report

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

| Nursery World

One in every seven primary school-aged children had a diagnosable mental illness in 2020 and 75 per cent of mental illnesses begin before the age of eighteen, research from The All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood has revealed.

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Labour pledges toothbrushing scheme for three- to five-year-olds in schools

Children missing out on free nursery and school milk

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

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

Campaign calls for EYFS to include sensory food play

Call for settings to take part in early years nutrition survey

Post-Covid children's mental health services face rocketing rise in demand

Analysis: Early years settings step up support for families as cost of living crisis hits

Nursery group calls for funding to improve access to high-quality nursery food for vulnerable children

Monkeypox listed as a notifiable disease in UK as cases rise

Teachers call for universal free school meals in England

Nurseries ban use of Nivea sun cream due to formula containing almond oil

Coronavirus: Sector expresses frustration over expanded symptom list as free testing ends

Government to end regular Covid testing of children in schools

Charity launches free parenting app with personalised daily content for fathers

Government publishes new Covid-19 measures for nurseries, childminders and schools amid Omicron concern

Outdoor play is 'every child's right'

Backlog and virtual visits are impacting health checks

Charities call on health secretary to end ‘baby blindspot’

A & E departments report dramatic rise in young children with fever

Campaigners call for Government to do more to tackle air pollution around nurseries and schools

A week of school sports days planned

Labour calls for free school meals in school holidays, as eligibility rises

NDNA supports campaign to explore a ‘colourful rainbow of fruit and vegetables’

‘Frightening’ statistics on children’s mental health revealed in MPs' cross-party report

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