Katy Morton

The DfE has been ordered by the ICO to provide information about how it has determined early years funding rates
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DfE ordered to explain how funding rates were calculated

Funding
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Consultation on revised EYFS launches

Review of The Early Years Foundation Stage
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Charity calls for free childcare so parents can return to work

Provision
The teaching unions believe the DfE's guidance to schools on Brexit 'lacks clarity'
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Unions write to DfE over Brexit threat to EU children

Policy & Politics
PHE has confirmed there has been a delay to the flu nasal spray vaccine for children
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Delays to flu vaccine for children

Health
The Scottish Government has committed to banning smacking in law
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Calls to follow Scotland's lead on smacking

Policy & Politics
Dr Mary Moloney: 'The findings are astounding. Let's face it, early childhood education and care in Ireland is facing an abyss.'
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Irish childcare crisis laid bare in report

Funding
The teaching unions say the cuts to funding are making it harder for schools to 'make ends meet'
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Tens of thousands of schools hit by 'deep unfair' cuts to funding

Funding
rimary schools are to receive a minimum of £4,000 per pupil from 2021-22
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School funding allocations 'don't go far enough', warn unions

Funding
Professor Dame Sally Davies
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Government 'nowhere near' target of halving child obesity

Child Obesity
The Royal Courts of Justice in London where the case was heard
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Families lose landmark SEND case against Government

Legislation
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Old Station Nursery group adds two more settings

Business
The Scottish Government has committed to banning smacking in law
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Scotland becomes first UK country to ban smacking

Legislation
The atlas suggests that as many as 1.3 million children and young people in the UK will be obese in 2030
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Over 1.3 million UK children expected to be obese in 2030

Child Obesity
The analysis finds that more than 80 per cent of schools will have less money in 2020 than they did in 2015
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Additional school funding not enough to ‘repair the damage’, warn unions

Policy & Politics
Cliffe House Day Nursery is among the groups cutting back on single-use plastics
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More nurseries are cutting out plastic

Business