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Daily roundup: Unhealthy food, childcare and youth engagement

Friday, July 4, 2014

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Junk food featured in children's TV programmes; cost of childcare inquiry calls for evidence; and Youth Engagement Fund opens for bids, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Care applications, school holidays and social care

Thursday, July 10, 2014

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Data reveals increase in care applications; police chief urges leniency for school term-time leave requests from officers; and president of children's services directors criticised for social worker comments, all in the news today.

Early years apprentice framework adds GCSE requirements

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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Entry standards for the new early years apprenticeship will require applicants to hold English and maths GCSE grades A* to C despite concerns from childcare leaders that it raises the bar too high, the sector's skills body has confirmed.

Daily roundup: Mental health, FGM clinic and class sizes

Monday, August 18, 2014

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Conservative MP calls for government to end practice of children and young people with mental health needs being held in police cells; plans unveiled for first specialist FGM clinic; and figures reveal true size of primary school classes, all in the news today.

Ageing society has implications for entire children's workforce

Monday, March 30, 2015

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We're all getting older. But what has an ageing society got to do with the children's and young people's sector?

Government accelerates plans to double free childcare allowance

Monday, June 1, 2015

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The government is fast-tracking plans to double provision of free childcare to 30 hours a week, with trials set to launch in September 2016, a year earlier than previously planned.

Councils accused of jeopardising government childcare plans

Friday, June 26, 2015

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Councils have been accused of putting government childcare plans in "significant jeopardy", because they are failing to monitor the number of childcare places in their areas.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Monday, September 28, 2015

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Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Childcare problems to leave families with disabled children worse off, charities warn

Monday, November 23, 2015

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Government plans to offset benefit cuts with the expansion of free early education could leave many disabled families worse off because of the problems they face accessing childcare, a group of charities has warned.

Government fails to meet ICO deadline on childcare funding calculations

Thursday, November 14, 2019

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The Department for Education has refused to publish how it calculated its funding rates for the 30 hours childcare offer despite an order by the information commissioner, according to campaigners.

Government refuses to publish evidence submitted to cost of childcare review

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

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The government has said it will not publish responses submitted as part of the consultation into the cost of childcare.

Government urged to restrict expanded free childcare to poorest children

Thursday, January 28, 2016

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The government has been urged to ditch plans to expand free childcare provision to 30 hours a week for all working parents and replace it with a means-tested system.

Nine children's centres at risk as council proposes cuts to save £1.5m

Friday, April 1, 2016

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A council is considering reducing the number of children's centres it runs as part of efforts to save £1.47m.

Ask the Experts: Making a move to management

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

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Our expert panel offers advice on staff supervision, team motivation, life skills for young people and engaging nursery children with the arts.

Pause to children's centre inspections could have "very serious" implications

Monday, June 6, 2016

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A government decision to suspend inspections of children's centres is placing children at risk, it has been claimed.

Greening unveils £50m grant scheme to create more childcare places

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

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A grant scheme worth £50m has been set up by government to create 9,000 more childcare places ahead of the expansion of free provision later this year.

Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's early education'

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

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The education of younger children is being put at risk by a shortage in trained early years teachers across nurseries in England, a charity has warned.

Childcare funding reform allocations fail to plug provision gaps

Thursday, September 15, 2016

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Funding allocated to individual councils under the government's proposed early years national funding formula does not prioritise areas that most need to boost childcare places, the Family and Childcare Trust (Fact) has warned.

Nursery leaders round on Truss criticism

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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Early years leaders have accused childcare minister Elizabeth Truss of failing to understand education, after she branded UK nurseries "chaotic".

NDNA and DfE to trial early years ratios

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is to trial rarely used maximum child-to-staff ratios in early years settings as part of a Department for Education-funded project.

Test ratios in 'real-life nursery', urges NDNA chief

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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The government should base its childcare reforms on "real-life nursery situations" and not on a "paper exercise", the head of an early years charity has argued.

Truss failed to meet major providers during childcare consultation

Monday, June 3, 2013

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Childcare minister Elizabeth Truss failed to consult directly with some of the largest early years providers when drawing up childcare reforms, an official list of her meetings reveals.

Initiative aims to tackle stress in early years workforce

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

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Early years providers are urged to take part in a government-backed initiative which aims to cut stressors that are "taking their toll" on the workforce.

Behind the Inspection Rating: Outdoor play spurs imagination

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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Strong belief in learning through outdoor play helps Oakwood House Nursery achieve outstanding rating.

Huge rise in complaint-driven nursery inspections

Thursday, October 10, 2013

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The number of early years providers inspected as a result of a complaint made to Ofsted increased six-fold in less than a year.

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