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Government launches early years healthy eating drive
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- Monday, November 13, 2017 | CYP Now
Example menus and recipes have been published by government as part of efforts to encourage early years settings to provide healthy meals for young children.
Labour childcare plans 'to benefit 1.3m additional children'
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- Tuesday, May 30, 2017 | CYP Now
An additional 1.3m children will benefit from plans to extend free childcare entitlement, Labour has revealed.
Early years providers 'underrepresented' on funding panels
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- Monday, June 12, 2017 | CYP Now
Local authorities are making "unfair and unbalanced" early years funding decisions because the sector is underrepresented on official decision-making forums, a childcare organisation has claimed.
'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap
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- Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | CYP Now
A doubling of the early years pupil premium is being called for by the Social Mobility Commission, as part of an ambitious set of demands to halt two decades of "failed" attempts by government to improve life chances for poorer families.
Early years accounts for two-thirds of Ofsted complaints
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- Friday, June 13, 2014 | CYP Now
Two-thirds of all formal complaints made against Ofsted over the past year were from early years providers.
Childcare minister launches drive to boost school early education provision
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- Tuesday, October 21, 2014 | CYP Now
The government is to fund 26 schools to act as "champions" for providing early education to disadvantaged two-year-olds as part of a major drive to get schools more involved in delivering free childcare.
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
Free early years schemes 'disproportionately benefit the better-off'
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- Tuesday, June 12, 2018 | CYP Now
Government initiatives to offer free early education are disproportionately benefitting children from affluent families, analysis of pupil data has concluded.
Childcare at two fails to improve outcomes, reports DfE study
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- Thursday, March 7, 2013 | CYP Now
A government pilot of early education provision for two-year-olds did not result in improved outcomes by the age of five, a Department for Education study has concluded.
Family and Childcare Trust to join Coram group in face of funding challenges
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- Thursday, July 26, 2018 | CYP Now
The Family and Childcare Trust is to become part of the Coram group to secure its long-term future in an "increasingly competitive and difficult environment".
'Unrealistic' academic standards failing children, warn early years experts
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- Monday, November 11, 2013 | CYP Now
Government expectations of education standards for young children are "unrealistic and inappropriate", a group of early years experts has warned.
DfE data reveals 10,000 fewer childcare providers plan to offer 30-hour places
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- Thursday, February 23, 2017 | CYP Now
More than 10,000 fewer childcare providers are planning to offer 30 hours of free childcare provision than offer the current 15 hours, it has emerged.
Early years settings to receive £50m to improve social mobility
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- Thursday, December 14, 2017 | CYP Now
The government has pledged to plough £50m into bolstering early years provision in disadvantaged areas, as part of an action plan to improve social mobility.
Glitch left thousands of families 'at risk of missing out' on free childcare
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- Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | CYP Now
The government has said it will take action to address a technical issue that campaigners have claimed left thousands of low-income families at risk of missing out on free childcare entitlements.
London childcare providers feel the strain of parents not paying fees
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- Monday, June 27, 2011 | CYP Now
Parents' inability to pay childcare fees has topped the list of concerns for providers in London, the Daycare Trust has found.
Three-quarters of EYFS settings score good or outstanding
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- Friday, September 9, 2011 | CYP Now
More than three-quarters of childcare settings delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage were judged as good or outstanding by Ofsted.
Labour appoints new shadow childcare minister
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- Thursday, November 6, 2014 | CYP Now
The Labour Party has appointed Wirral South MP Alison McGovern as the new shadow childcare minister.
Children's centres 'losing universal provision ethos'
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- Thursday, June 25, 2015 | CYP Now
Funding cuts mean children's centres are increasingly supporting only the most disadvantaged families rather than offering universal provision, a government-commissioned report has found.
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