Catherine Gaunt

Nursery schools are reporting a rise in demand for places for children with SEND PHOTO Adobe Stock

News 6 July 2021

Funding pressures put children with SEND at risk of missing out on nursery school places

Coronavirus

Little Dukes academy at Riverside Nursery Schools is the first 'host centre' approved by Montessori Centre International

News 2 July 2021

Nursery group training academy links up with Montessori Centre International

Provision

Nurseries turned to video calls to keep in touch with parents during the pandemic

News 1 July 2021

Coronavirus leads to rise in popularity of video calls to parents among nurseries

Coronavirus

There has been a loss of 1,800 childminders since the end of August 2020 PHOTO Adobe Stock

News 30 June 2021

Ofsted figures show ongoing fall in childcare provider numbers

Provision

One of the documents released under the FOI request

News 29 June 2021

Analysis: The fallout from the Alliance investigation stokes calls for funding review

Analysis

Claire Cobain, headteacher at Arlesdene Nursery School and Pre-school

News 29 June 2021

Interview - Claire Cobain

People

Ofsted has updated guidance for early years inspections that will take place from September

News 29 June 2021

Ofsted updates early years inspection handbook ahead of EYFS reforms

Ofsted Education Inspection Framework

Young children are being exposed to respiratory infections, as social distancing eases and they come into contact with more children, leading to an increase in admissions to hospital emergency departments PHOTO Adobe Stock

News 25 June 2021

A & E departments report dramatic rise in young children with fever

Health

The Government has been accused of 'knowingly underfunding' nurseries and childminders for years PHOTO Adobe Stock

News 24 June 2021

Government dismisses childcare funding petition signed by 110,000

Childcare Costs

The Duchess of Cambridge has set up a research centre for early childhood development PHOTO Kensington Palace

News 18 June 2021

Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre

Families

Working Families is calling on employers to advertise all jobs as flexible PHOTO Adobe Stock

News 17 June 2021

Working parents air concerns over 'backward slide' for family life

Coronavirus

News 17 June 2021

Education secretary confirms phonics check to go ahead in the Autumn term

Policy & Politics

Neil Leitch, chief executive, Early Years Alliance, said the early years sector had been treated as 'an afterthought' by the Government during the Covid crisis

News 16 June 2021

Government treatment of early years sector 'unforgivable'

Policy & Politics

The documents reveal that the Government was aware that the cost of funding places for three- and four-year-olds under 30-hour childcare would likely lead to higher costs for parents of younger children

News 15 June 2021

Government 'knowingly underfunded' the early years sector

Policy & Politics

Children from Rosedene Nurseries explore Saltburn Beach on the North Yorkshire coast

News 11 June 2021

Nursery group launches beach school

Provision

Labour says the Government's education recovery plan is 'totally insufficient' PHOTO Adobe Stock

News 9 June 2021

Labour urges Conservative MPs to vote for its education catch-up plans

Coronavirus

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