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Daily roundup 25 September: Early literacy, adoption, and safeguarding

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Reading scheme shows importance of parent support; adoption ancestor search rights extended; and head teacher laments failure to celebrate pupil success due to safeguarding fears, all in the news today.

An evaluation of a new early literacy programme shows that the scheme is successfully helping young children to enjoy early reading and writing activities. The report on the first year of Making it REAL, managed by the National Children’s Bureau, shows that empowering parents to support their child’s early literacy development is key to the success of the scheme.

Children, grandchildren and other relatives of adopted adults can now trace back through their ancestors’ lives – helping them to unearth their family history, under new rules announced by the Department for Education. Previously, only the person adopted and their birth relatives were able to used specialised adoption agencies to help shed light on their family history and make contact with their biological family members. New rules, coming into effect in November will extend this right to all relatives of adopted adults.

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