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Osborne announces school funding overhaul

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.

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.

Early years groups criticise plans to promote school-based childcare

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Government moves to make schools publish details of their own childcare provision alongside their academic results will disadvantage other nursery providers, early years groups have said.

Ofsted to regain control of school and further education inspections

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted will bring the management of all school and further education inspections back in-house, the inspectorate has confirmed.

Research questions value of free childcare for three-year-olds

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

| CYP Now

Free nursery entitlement for three-year-olds provides little benefit to their long-term development, according to latest research.

Call to boycott testing of four-year-olds

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

| CYP Now

Schools are being urged to boycott new testing arrangements for children in reception classes.

Align early years assessment with Sats, urges Ofsted chief

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Friday, June 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Ofsted chief inspector Michael Wilshaw has said the Early Years Foundation Stage is a "weak basis for accountability".

Education and childcare reforms come into effect

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Monday, September 1, 2014

| CYP Now

A host of flagship government initiatives covering early years and education settings and professionals come into effect from today (1 September).

Government rejects child poverty commission targets

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| CYP Now

Government efforts to tackle child poverty have been branded a "fairytale" after it rejected calls to introduce a range of new targets aimed at improving social mobility.

Councils divert two-year-old childcare money to fund SEN

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities are using funding that is intended to provide childcare for two-year-olds to top up special educational needs budgets, CYP Now has discovered.

'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.

NCAS Conference: Employers urged to provide childcare

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| CYP Now

Businesses and schools should be used to ensure sufficient childcare places for two-year-olds are available, experts have said.

Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks

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Friday, September 15, 2017

| CYP Now

Four- and five-year-olds will be expected to sit baseline tests when they start reception school as part of a raft of changes to the way children are assessed, the government has announced.

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| CYP Now

Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.

Corbyn names Lucy Powell shadow education secretary

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Monday, September 14, 2015

| CYP Now

New Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Lucy Powell shadow education secretary.

North-south divide apparent by age five, report finds

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Poor children in the north of England are faring worse by the age of five than their counterparts in London, a study has found.

MPs call for extension of 30 hours childcare to all children

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| CYP Now

The government's 30 hours free childcare initiative should be extended to all children as part of efforts to tackle social and economic inequalities, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said.

Literacy campaign champions early education role

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Monday, September 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Early years professionals look set to play a key role in improving the literacy of disadvantaged children as part of a new national campaign to boost reading standards.

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has warned that the move to a single inspection framework covering all education provision must not lead to further "schoolification" of the early years.

Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's early education'

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

| CYP Now

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.

Council rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted plans children's centre closures

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

| CYP Now

A council where children's services were judged "inadequate" earlier this year has announced plans to close four of its 10 children's centres.

School readiness project rated a success

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

| CYP Now

Early years providers and schools are being urged to develop closer links to improve school readiness in disadvantaged areas, after a government-funded pilot project was deemed to be a success by researchers.

Academic urges flexible schooling for summer-born children

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

| CYP Now

Schools should allow summer-born or pre-term children to delay their education at the stage most suitable for them, an education expert has said.

Ofsted chief blames early years providers for school readiness failings

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has blamed early years providers for failing to adequately prepare disadvantaged children for school.

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Osborne announces school funding overhaul

Ofsted considers merging early years, schools and FE inspections

Early years groups criticise plans to promote school-based childcare

Ofsted to regain control of school and further education inspections

Research questions value of free childcare for three-year-olds

Call to boycott testing of four-year-olds

Align early years assessment with Sats, urges Ofsted chief

Education and childcare reforms come into effect

Government rejects child poverty commission targets

Councils divert two-year-old childcare money to fund SEN

'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap

Early years accounts for two-thirds of Ofsted complaints

NCAS Conference: Employers urged to provide childcare

Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks

Daily roundup: Early intervention, emotional health, and troubled families

Corbyn names Lucy Powell shadow education secretary

North-south divide apparent by age five, report finds

MPs call for extension of 30 hours childcare to all children

Literacy campaign champions early education role

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's early education'

Council rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted plans children's centre closures

School readiness project rated a success

Academic urges flexible schooling for summer-born children

Ofsted chief blames early years providers for school readiness failings

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