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A decade of decline

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 16, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Ten years after the Marmot Review on health inequality and the Government is still ignoring evidence that investing early is best, says Natalie Perera

A working strategy

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 20, 2020
    • | Nursery World
The success of the Graduate Leader Fund in boosting qualifications shows that evidence-based, long-term strategies can work, says Natalie Perera

It’s how you spend it

    Opinion
  • Monday, December 9, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Yet more evidence shows that investment in education is best started in the early years and maintained throughout childhood

A lot of election promise

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 14, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Ahead of the next general election, pledges will likely be made about childcare, but will they have any substance?

Paying lip service

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 16, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The Government needs to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to releasing more funds for the early years

Minister for change?

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 19, 2019
    • | Nursery World
If the new children and families minister is interested in closing the disadvantage gap, she needs to overhaul the whole system

Where’s the evidence?

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 22, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education’s recently announced pledge to improve social mobility offers some hope but is largely flawed

More justification

    Opinion
  • Monday, June 24, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The latest research into the benefits of the Sure Start programme backs up the positive points made in previous studies

Time after time

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 27, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Despite a recent Social Mobility Commission report and an IFS review under way, the inequality problem isn’t really being tackled

Quantity over quality

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 15, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Government funding of the early years has risen over the past few decades, but could the money have been better spent?

A Sure sign

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 18, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The recent 20th anniversary of Sure Start, which evolved into Children’s Centres, is a reminder of what we are at risk of losing

School of thought

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 18, 2019
    • | Nursery World
The Government’s well-received strategy on school teacher recruitment shows what could be achieved if it made the same effort with early years

You get what you pay for

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 21, 2019
    • | Nursery World
It matters that the average early years practitioner is paid the same as a hairdresser and that nearly half rely on state benefits

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