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Play Wales wins funding and closure reprieve

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Play Wales has been saved from closure after being handed £400,000 by the Welsh government to support local efforts to encourage play and tackle poverty.

Education experts unhappy with DfE primary testing plans

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Friday, June 23, 2017

| CYP Now

Department for Education proposals to scrap tests for seven-year-olds and introduce a new assessment at age four or five would not deliver the improvements required within primary schools, education campaigners have warned.

Government mental health plans 'lack early years focus'

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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

| CYP Now

Government plans to improve mental health help for children and young people are missing an opportunity by failing to look at early years support, experts have warned.

Councils to make £125m cut in children's centres spending

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's centres are to take the brunt of planned council cuts to children and young people's services this year, with £125.6m set to be stripped from their spending.

DfE announces voluntary sector funding

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Promotion of adoption 'parties' and connecting vulnerable young people with arts and cultural facilities are among the projects that have received government voluntary sector funding.

Early years sector slams Ofsted over inspection plans

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Monday, June 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted's failure to bring childcare inspections back in-house mean it is treating the early years as a "second-class service", sector leaders have said.

Councils prioritise reception classes over early years care

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Children could miss out on their entitlement to free early years care as local authorities prioritise primary school places to meet a rise in demand, an education union has warned.

Ofsted to bring childcare inspections back in-house

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted is set to announce plans to bring the inspection of early years settings back in-house, CYP Now can exclusively reveal.

Government U-turns on testing of four-year-olds

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Friday, April 8, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has ditched plans to use controversial tests for four-year-olds as a starting point for measuring pupil progress.

Laws outlines Lib Dem pledges to boost childcare profession

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

| CYP Now

Improving the pay and status of early years professionals will be a key priority if the Liberal Democrats form part of the next government, the schools minister David Laws has said.

National Curriculum review should include pre-school education, say early years bodies

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

| CYP Now

A coalition of early years organisations has criticised the government's National Curriculum review for not encompassing pre-school education.

Teach First expands into early years

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has announced that the teacher training charity Teach First will be opened up to would-be early educators from September.

Future of early years training standards group in doubt

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

| CYP Now

The future of an employee-led group established by government to develop early years training standards is in doubt after its lead member Busy Bees, the UK's largest nursery chain quit.

Early years experts criticise toddler schooling idea

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Early education experts have hit out at calls from Ofsted's chair to open up school enrollment to two- and three-year-olds.

Parents 'relying on breakfast clubs' in order to work

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Monday, January 16, 2017

| CYP Now

More than a quarter of parents fear that they or their partner would have to give up work if their children could not attend a school breakfast club, research has claimed.

Childcare providers should do more to tackle child poverty, says commission

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Monday, January 5, 2015

| CYP Now

The government's advisory body on social mobility has urged early years providers and local authorities to do more to tackle child poverty.

Early years leaders defend nurseries' education record

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Thursday, April 9, 2015

| CYP Now

Independent nurseries have reacted angrily to report findings that suggest they are failing to give the UK's poorest children a good early education.

Early education focus for Lib Dems election manifesto

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats have unveiled more details of how it will boost free childcare and education support for disadvantaged children if it forms the next government.

MPs call for nursery schools to become academies

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Monday, April 11, 2016

| CYP Now

Nursery schools should be allowed to become academies otherwise some will struggle to survive, a group of MPs and peers have warned.

Call for London mayor to launch early SEND identification drive

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Friday, July 20, 2018

| CYP Now

London mayor Sadiq Khan is being called on to take action to ensure children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are identified and supported earlier.