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Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Troubled families tsar Louise Casey criticises "colluding" social workers, research backs pupil premium effectiveness, and LGA chief calls for changes to inspections for children's services, all in the news today.

Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Smart table' supports learners

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

| CYP Now

How creative thinking and parent engagement helped Busy Bees Evesham achieve an outstanding rating in its latest Ofsted inspection.

Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Parliamentary inquiry finds failings in childcare system; primary schools struggle to prepare for free school meals plan; and study highlights geographical spread of free schools, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Ensuring food safety

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

A Department for Education review has been unable to quantify the costs of providing childcare, prompting concerns from the early years sector that the planned expansion of the free entitlement will be underfunded.

Ask the Experts: Post-retirement work options

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on working with children after retiring, joint commissioning, internet safety and the role of key workers.

Daily roundup: Free childcare, residential care, and youth unemployment

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

| CYP Now

Two-year-old childcare offer expansion in doubt, quarter of looked-after children are in lower-quality care homes, and the average under 30 will be unemployed for more than two years, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Safe houses, antisocial behaviour, and criminal records

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Friday, May 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Report calls for "safe houses" for young Londoners fleeing violence, children's home closed following antisocial behaviour reports, and youth charities encouraged to employ staff with criminal records, all in the news today.

Skills for the new curriculum

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Monday, June 11, 2012

| CYP Now

The revised Early Years Foundation Stage framework comes into force in September. Sue Learner examines the skills that practitioners require to deliver the new curriculum and what training is available

Ask the Experts: Address parents' school concerns

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Monday, September 14, 2015

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on improving a struggling academy, career crisis, advice on "legal highs" and ensuring a healthy diet in nursery

Daily roundup: Childcare ratios, sex education and videogames

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Friday, April 12, 2013

| CYP Now

A childminder scolds the childcare minister, youth leaders raise concerns over sex education and game companies face probe over pressurising children, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Nursery transitions

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Monday, June 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Anti-ratios campaigning pays off

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Monday, June 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Proposals to change childcare ratios might be abandoned, but campaigners pledge to fight off other reforms.

Daily roundup: reading skills, nursery complaints, and youth worker cuts

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Poor seven-year-olds falling behind affluent peers in reading; nursery owner slams Ofsted over complaint-driven inspections; and 100 youth worker jobs at risk in Essex, all in the news today.

Ask the Experts: Helping parents to love the rain

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

| CYP Now

Ask the Expert: Snow safety

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Professionals fear reforms will jeopardise quality of childcare

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Reforms to improve the quality, standards and status of the early years workforce, while relaxing regulations around staff-to-child ratios are dividing opinion in the early years sector

Ask the Experts: Retain a strong voice for children

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on the future of DCSs, helping children of substance misusers, improving speech skills and conflict resolution.

Daily roundup: Narey backs ratios, childminders don't; and adjusting grades to birth dates

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| CYP Now

Former Barnardo's chief Narey backs increase in childcare ratios, but three quarters of childminders do not, and the IFS calls for exam grading to be linked to a child's birth date, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Childcare funding, youth homelessness and school dinners

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Friday, June 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Survey shows free childcare funding gap, no referrals for 60 per cent of young claiming 'housing need', and closure threat for thousands of school canteens, all in the news today.

Ask The Expert: Playing with shapes

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Q: One of the children at the nursery where I work has became fascinated by the shapes of things. How can we use shape as part of children's learning?

Daily roundup: Heart surgery, Ofsted statistics, and measles outbreak

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's heart surgery to resume in Leeds, concern over number of daycare settings rated as inadequate, and measles outbreak in Swansea continues, all in the news today.

Ask the Experts: Run supportive training sessions

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

| CYP Now

Our panel offers advice on delivering sensitive training, school place planning, bilingual nursery support and a bereaved young carer.

Daily roundup: Pupil premium, childcare standards and youth apprenticeships

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

| CYP Now

The government is to raise the pupil premium among primary school reforms, a government international comparison of childcare places the UK fourth, and almost three quarters of Neet young people cannot access apprenticeships.

Early years settings prepare for EYFS reforms

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Monday, April 16, 2012

| CYP Now

With the new framework due to be implemented in September, the coming weeks will be critical in assuring young children benefit from the changes

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Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections

Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Smart table' supports learners

Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools

Ask the Expert: Ensuring food safety

'Baffling' DfE report raises fears over free childcare expansion

Ask the Experts: Post-retirement work options

Daily roundup: Free childcare, residential care, and youth unemployment

Daily roundup: Safe houses, antisocial behaviour, and criminal records

Skills for the new curriculum

Ask the Experts: Address parents' school concerns

Daily roundup: Childcare ratios, sex education and videogames

Ask the Expert: Nursery transitions

Anti-ratios campaigning pays off

Daily roundup: reading skills, nursery complaints, and youth worker cuts

Ask the Experts: Helping parents to love the rain

Ask the Expert: Snow safety

Professionals fear reforms will jeopardise quality of childcare

Ask the Experts: Retain a strong voice for children

Daily roundup: Narey backs ratios, childminders don't; and adjusting grades to birth dates

Daily roundup: Childcare funding, youth homelessness and school dinners

Ask The Expert: Playing with shapes

Daily roundup: Heart surgery, Ofsted statistics, and measles outbreak

Ask the Experts: Run supportive training sessions

Daily roundup: Pupil premium, childcare standards and youth apprenticeships

Early years settings prepare for EYFS reforms

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