Nicole Weinstein

Coronavirus has exacerbated the financial situation for many low-income families
News

Coronavirus: Low-income families at ‘breaking point’

Coronavirus
From 2023, parents who defer their child's school start will have an automatic right to an extra year of funded early learning and childcare
News

Scotland to offer free childcare for children who defer school

Policy & Politics
The Out of School Alliance warns that without sustainability funding, many after-school, breakfast and holiday clubs will close
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Out-of-school sector threatened with collapse

Coronavirus
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Scotland’s childcare expansion programme: new data published

Funding
Minister Vicky Ford said the funding rise will cover increases to the National Living Wage
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Extra £44m funding will cover living wage rise, minister says in early years debate

Business
Children's minister Maree Todd on a visit to a nursery
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Scottish nurseries win relief from business rates until 2023

Policy & Politics
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One million children living in poverty ineligible for free school meals

Policy & Politics
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Nottinghamshire nurseries chosen to help flght childhood obesity

Child Obesity
N Family Club has opened a nursery on Church Street in Stoke Newington
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N Family Club expands to six nurseries in London

Provision
Art-based activities, put together by nurseries for parents to do with their children during lockdown, were popular with families of pre-school children
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Coronavirus: Arts and crafts and YouTube top resources during lockdown

Coronavirus
The International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study looks at children at age five
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Low birth weight an indicator of delayed development at age five - study

Child Development
Children's play has changed during the pandemic, and researchers are compiling an archive for future generations
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Coronavirus: Call for examples of how children’s play has changed during the pandemic

Coronavirus
Snapdragons Cribbs Causeway in Gloucestershire
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Snapdragons launches its tenth nursery

Provision
Dr Janet Rose is the first patron of the campaign to regulate nannies
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Norland Nanny principal joins campaign to regulate nannies

Policy & Politics
Elmo and his mum Mae are at the heart of new content UNICEF and Sesame Workshop are creating to support parents around the world PHOTO Sesame Workshop
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Coronavirus: Sesame Street launches storylines to help parents through the pandemic  

Families
PHOTO Siren Films
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Film clips on Characteristics of Effective Learning now online

Resources