Catherine Gaunt

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Coronavirus: EYFS requirements and ratios to be relaxed

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Children are expected to take the Reception baseline in the first few weeks of starting school
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Call to scrap the Reception Baseline

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Once the coronavirus crisis is over, young children will need a curriculum with well-being and play at its core, say campaigners
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Renewed call for early years curriculum to be extended up to seven

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New childminders are among those not eligible for Government support
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Childcare providers among hundreds of firms not eligible for Government help

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Government funds £8m Covid-19 adoption support scheme to help families

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Tulip Siddiq has been reappointed as shadow minister for children and early years
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Tulip Siddiq reappointed shadow early years minister

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Nurseries that are open for key workers and vulnerable children are running at just 12 per cent occupancy
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Around half of nurseries staying open for key worker families

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Nursery group secures £1.6m loan to support business during pandemic

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Coronavirus: Government funding 'a sticking plaster', say charities

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Taplins Childcare says good communication is essential
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How the coronavirus reponse has unfolded so far

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The charities are calling for emergency support while schools are closed and families stay at home
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Call to raise child benefit by £10 a week to help families during coronavirus pandemic

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Some of the handmade cotton face masks for maternity wards
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The big picture - Art school makes masks for hospitals

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Bright Horizons has launched a new emergency childcare website to link up key worker parents with local nurseries, childminders and nannies
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Bright Horizons launches website to help key worker parents find local childcare

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Key worker parents in Wales will have their childcare paid for under the coronavirus childcare assistance scheme
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Wales puts 30 hour childcare on hold to pay for key worker children

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Rebecca Long-Bailey is the new shadow education secretary
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Rebecca Long-Bailey named shadow education secretary

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Siren Films is offering free access to its early years clip library, with more than 340 training clips and six new online courses
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What’s on offer for children and families learning at home together?

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