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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

News

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

News

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.

How training improves childcare

Other

Monday, May 13, 2013

| CYP Now

Action to enhance the skills of early years leaders ensures quality care for two-year-olds in Kirklees.

Empathy scheme extends to early years

News

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

News

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

News

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.

Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections

Other

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

Other

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.

Trust calls for end to high childcare costs

News

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

News

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.

Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools

Other

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.

Fears raised over premium use

Other

Monday, July 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Allowing providers to choose how they use the early years pupil premium could see it offset losses elsewhere.

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

News

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

News

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.

Daily roundup: Child protection, a charity merger, and the Fair4Families campaign

Other

Monday, January 28, 2013

| CYP Now

A shake-up of child protection training rumoured to be on the cards, The Private Equity Foundation and Impetus Trust announce plans to merge, and a campaign to protect families from cuts, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Ensuring food safety

Other

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

The gentle agitator

Other

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| CYP Now

Gabriella Józwiak talks to Deborah Lawson, general secretary of the union Voice

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

News

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

News

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.

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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

How training improves childcare

Empathy scheme extends to early years

Osborne announces school funding overhaul

DfE to assess early years funding disparities

Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections

Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Smart table' supports learners

Trust calls for end to high childcare costs

Pupil premium to be extended into the early years

Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools

Fears raised over premium use

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

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

Daily roundup: Child protection, a charity merger, and the Fair4Families campaign

Ask the Expert: Ensuring food safety

The gentle agitator

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

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