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Review calls for EYFS to be streamlined to cut down on bureaucracy

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

| CYP Now

Dame Clare Tickell has proposed that the 69 learning targets set out in the curriculum for under-fives be reduced to 17 to cut down on bureaucracy and increase practitioners' contact time with children.

DfE to spend £5m on early years research

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

| CYP Now

The cost benefits of early education and its impact on children are to be investigated as part of an eight-year research project.

Bradford two-year-olds face childcare shortfall

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Friday, May 3, 2013

| CYP Now

A shortage of capacity may leave thousands of disadvantaged two-year-olds in Bradford unable to receive free childcare next year.

Empathy scheme extends to early years

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

| CYP Now

A scheme that brings babies into primary schools to improve pupils' behaviour is to be extended to early years settings.

Osborne announces school funding overhaul

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

| CYP Now

Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to introduce a new national funding formula for schools to ensure money is fairly distributed between local areas.

DfE to assess early years funding disparities

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Monday, July 1, 2013

| CYP Now

The Department for Education is planning to review early years funding to ensure money is fairly distributed between local areas.

Trust calls for end to high childcare costs

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

| CYP Now

A radical overhaul of the childcare system is needed if more parents are going to be able to afford to access early years support, a new report says.

Pupil premium to be extended into the early years

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| CYP Now

The pupil premium will be able to fund early years provision from next year as part of a package of government measures to boost childcare.

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

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Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted is looking at plans to merge its early years, schools and further education inspections under a single framework.

Exclusive: Half of councils fail to secure sufficient free childcare places

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

| CYP Now

More than half of local authorities will be unable to provide all disadvantaged two-year-olds with access to free childcare when the government's flagship scheme expands next month, CYP Now can reveal.

Childcare eligibility changes to extend provision to 8,000 more two-year-olds

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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

| CYP Now

An additional 8,000 two-year-olds will be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare under proposals to overhaul the eligibility arrangements, the government has said.

Call for 30-hour childcare to be scrapped in favour of means-testing system

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Monday, April 17, 2017

| CYP Now

The government should halt its planned introduction of 30 hours of free childcare each week in favour of a more targeted approach that benefits low income families, a think-tank has said.

Early years providers encouraged to take up loan offer

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

| CYP Now

Children's minister Sarah Teather has called on early years providers to take advantage of the government's loan scheme for smaller businesses in preparation for the increase in free childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.

Teather announces greater flexibility on early education entitlement

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

| CYP Now

Parents of three- and four-year-olds will be given more flexibility over how to use their free entitlement to early education under proposals announced by the children's minister.

DfE names councils to trial early years pupil premium

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

| CYP Now

Seven local authorities are to test new arrangements for providing additional support to disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds in early education.

Early years groups criticise plans to promote school-based childcare

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Government moves to make schools publish details of their own childcare provision alongside their academic results will disadvantage other nursery providers, early years groups have said.

£1m fund to help parents support early years learning

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

| CYP Now

An app that aims to raise the attainment of disadvantaged young children has been backed as part of a £1m parenting support fund.

Election childcare pledges to prompt massive spending cuts

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Government departments are facing massive cuts in order to meet free childcare manifesto pledges proposed by the three main parties, a study has claimed.

Ofsted criticises standard of early years services

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

| CYP Now

Early years services in Wiltshire are failing many of the poorest children in the county, according to the findings of an Ofsted report.

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

| CYP Now

More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

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Review calls for EYFS to be streamlined to cut down on bureaucracy

DfE to spend £5m on early years research

Bradford two-year-olds face childcare shortfall

Empathy scheme extends to early years

Osborne announces school funding overhaul

DfE to assess early years funding disparities

Trust calls for end to high childcare costs

Pupil premium to be extended into the early years

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

Exclusive: Half of councils fail to secure sufficient free childcare places

Childcare eligibility changes to extend provision to 8,000 more two-year-olds

Call for 30-hour childcare to be scrapped in favour of means-testing system

Early years providers encouraged to take up loan offer

Teather announces greater flexibility on early education entitlement

DfE names councils to trial early years pupil premium

Early years groups criticise plans to promote school-based childcare

£1m fund to help parents support early years learning

Election childcare pledges to prompt massive spending cuts

Ofsted criticises standard of early years services

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

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