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MPs call for review into impact of Covid-19 on childcare workforce

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

MPs have called for an independent inquiry into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on early years workers.

Covid-19 restrictions could set back children’s development by six months, Ofsted warns

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Repeated isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic has left many children across early years settings and schools “at least six months behind where they should be” in terms of learning and social and emotional development, Ofsted has said.

Free childcare qualifications offered by government as part of Covid-19 recovery

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Free childcare training is being offered by the government, as part of a £95m package of measures aimed at supporting the UK's economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Children's charities to get extra funding for Covid response

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The government is to provide additional funding to extend Covid-19 response programmes run by children’s charities.

Ofsted announces return to full inspections in 2021

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Inspections are to resume across children’s services, schools, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision and early years settings in 2021 after visits were suspended due to Covid-19.

Councils tackle young children's development gaps

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Local authorities involved in a government programme to tackle developmental gaps in disadvantaged children have reported that it improved outcomes for under-fives and boosted the profile of early years in councils.

Coronavirus daily round-up: Tuesday 1 December

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Early years leader lauds rise in standards of childcare providers despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

DfE ‘denying Covid support to early years providers’, sector warns

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Monday, November 30, 2020

Early years providers hit hard by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic are being denied the same support from government being given to schools, sector leaders have warned.