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Councils should do more to recruit and support childminders in order to boost places for the free childcare entitlement for two-year-olds, a government report recommends.

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.

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.

Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections

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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

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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.

Childcare professionals reject DfE plans to simplify staff management

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Plans to remove requirements on childcare settings to regularly appraise staff and improve qualification levels have been criticised by early years professionals.

Rating downgrades 'threaten free childcare scheme'

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Monday, December 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Early years providers say tougher inspections will make it harder for the sector to provide all the nursery places needed to deliver the government's free childcare scheme.

Daily roundup: Benefits cap, female genital mutilation, and smoking in cars

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Friday, February 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Latest figures on households affected by the benefits cap published; government makes FGM declaration, and health experts call on politicians to ban smoking in cars, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Benefit sanctions, early years, and childcare support

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Monday, March 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Young people struggle for basics after benefits wrongly stopped; early years bodies create policy guidance for party leaders; and poor working families miss out on childcare support, all in the news today.

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.

Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools

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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.

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.

Ask the Expert: DIsability inclusion

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Ask the Expert: Ensuring food safety

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

| CYP Now

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.

Lib Dems and Labour promise to increase paternity leave

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Friday, May 12, 2017

| CYP Now

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to offer fathers an additional month's paid paternity leave as part of efforts to boost shared parental responsibility, exceeding proposals set out in Labour's draft manifesto.

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.

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.

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Bradford two-year-olds face childcare shortfall

Childminders deemed key to two-year-old offer

Empathy scheme extends to early years

DfE to assess early years funding disparities

Daily roundup: Louise Casey, pupil premium and inspections

Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Smart table' supports learners

Childcare professionals reject DfE plans to simplify staff management

Rating downgrades 'threaten free childcare scheme'

Daily roundup: Benefits cap, female genital mutilation, and smoking in cars

Daily roundup: Benefit sanctions, early years, and childcare support

Trust calls for end to high childcare costs

Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

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

Ask the Expert: DIsability inclusion

Ask the Expert: Ensuring food safety

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

Lib Dems and Labour promise to increase paternity leave

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

Election childcare pledges to prompt massive spending cuts

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