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The NEU union has delivered 'unhappy' birthday cards to Ofsted's regional offices to mark the inspectorate's 30th birthday PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Teaching union wishes Ofsted an ‘unhappy birthday’ and renews calls for it to be replaced

Management
Social enterprise LEYF will use the charity bond to grow its business and provide care and education to 10,000 children including those that are disadvantaged PHOTO: Isabelle Johnson/London Early Years Foundation
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LEYF launches charity bond to help achieve plans to double number of nurseries

Management
Tens of thousands of parents and those in the education sector have given their backing to calls for the prime minister to rethink plans to reduce staff: child ratios PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Thousands of parents and childcare staff back petitions against PM’s plans to relax ratios

Families
Bright Horizons has bought nursery group Only About Children (OAC) PHOTO: OAC
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Bright Horizons acquires Australian nursery group

Management
Little Tigers Nursery and Pre-school is the Little Nursery Group's fourth setting
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West Sussex based nursery group re-brands and opens fourth setting

Provision
The Department of Health and Social Care is looking for new parents' view on maternal support, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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New parents invited to contribute to 10-year plan to improve mental health support

Families
Parents have reported money disappearing from their Tax Free Childcare accounts temporarily or having funds returned to their bank, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Parents still experiencing technical problems with Tax-Free Childcare as Government looks to promote scheme

Tax-Free Childcare
The series of reports from the DfE look at the impact of the pandemic on nurseries, school-settings and childminders, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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New DfE research emphasises the impact of Covid on early years sector

Coronavirus
A word cloud showing how downgrades affected nurseries
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Analysis: Settings raise concerns after bad inspection experiences - Nursery World survey

Analysis
GOSH Charity's new fundraising initiative invites early years settings and schools to hold play dates to raise money to support the treatment of seriously ill children
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Nurseries invited to hold a Play Date to raise money for seriously ill children

Resources
The research by JRF on behalf of Little Village, which reveals over a million young children are in poverty, recommends 'affordable childcare for all'
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Over one million babies and young children are living in poverty - report

Child Poverty
The prime minister Boris Johnson has said the Government is looking at ways to reduce the cost of childcare, PHOTO - The PM on a visit to Busy Bees in Heathrow last month
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Government to look at ways to reduce childcare costs

Families
Kiddi Caru Harlow, operated by Grandir, has been downgraded from outstanding to inadequate in its latest inspection
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Nursery group Grandir complains to Ofsted after setting downgraded to inadequate

Management
Crafting Connections aims to bring young children and older adults together through the creation of artworks PHOTO Crafting Connections
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Early years settings invited to take part in trial of intergenerational art project

Provision
Nurseries are asking parents not to bring in sun creams that now contain almond oil due to nut allergies PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Nurseries ban use of Nivea sun cream due to formula containing almond oil

Working With Parents
Kings Academy Ringmer School in Lewes, East Sussex, a Let's Go Zero school, has been working on becoming more sustainable since 2005. The school has 70kW of panels on their roofs.
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Government announces measures to help nurseries and schools be more environmentally sustainable

Policy & Politics