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Guided play as effective as adult-led instruction for children's learning and development

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new study finds that learning through guided play can be as effective as adult-led instruction and, in some cases, it can have a greater impact on children’s numeracy.

Sign up for our free nursery market webinar

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

| Nursery World

Register for the latest in Nursery World’s series of early years webinars, ‘Adjust. Adapt. Advance: UK Day Nursery Market Sentiment and Looking Ahead to 2022', in partnership with Christie & Co, on 10 February at 12pm.

Early years sector pays tribute to 'tireless, dedicated campaigner' Jack Dromey MP

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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

| Nursery World

The early years sector has paid tribute to Jack Dromey, the Labour politician who died suddenly on Friday.

Early years settings told they can relax ratios as Covid deemed an 'exceptional circumstance'

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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has confirmed that early years settings struggling with staff absences due to Covid can relax their ratios in line with the EYFS.

New children's commissioner for Wales appointed

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Monday, January 10, 2022

| Nursery World

Rocio Cifuentes, the current chief executive of a voluntary organisation that supports people from ethnic minority backgrounds, has been chosen as the new Children’s Commissioner for Wales.

NHS launches food scanner to help families make healthier choices

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Monday, January 10, 2022

| Nursery World

A new feature on the NHS Food Scanner App has been launched to show families how to make healthier food and drink swaps in a bid to tackle childhood obesity.

NDNA to collect data on number of nursery staff with Covid

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Monday, January 10, 2022

| Nursery World

Nurseries across England, Scotland and Wales are being encouraged to fill in a survey designed to find out the proportion of staff and children who are absent due to Covid.

Number of Covid cases in early years settings more than doubles

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Monday, January 10, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years sector organisations are calling on the Government to set out plans to keep settings safe and financially sustainable amid a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

Coronavirus: DfE publishes update for early years settings

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Friday, January 7, 2022

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has updated its Covid guidance for early years settings to reflect the latest changes to testing and self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.

'Schools teetering on the edge' with staff Covid absences

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Friday, January 7, 2022

| Nursery World

Nearly 1 in 10 schools had more than 20 per cent of their teaching staff off due to Covid on the first day of the new term, findings from a snap poll reveal .

Calls for better ventilation in schools as a quarter of teachers work in classrooms without opening windows

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Friday, January 7, 2022

| Nursery World

New research suggests the Government’s open window policy to increase ventilation in schools is ‘unworkable’ as 27 per cent of teaching staff work in classrooms without windows that open.

More than half of black children growing up in poverty, warns Labour

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

| Nursery World

According to Labour party analysis of Government figures, the number of children from black households growing up in poverty has more than doubled since 2010.

Kids Planet grows to 95 nurseries

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

| Nursery World

The UK’s third largest nursery group has bought George Perkins Day Nursery, a 47-place setting in Birmingham.

Ofsted dismisses calls to temporarily suspend early years inspections due to Covid

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

| Nursery World

As Nursery World reported yesterday, the NDNA wrote to Ofsted calling for routine early years inspections to be put on hold because of ‘unsustainable’ levels of staff absences, however the inspectorate has now confirmed inspections will continue as normal.