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Families will be able to apply for funding for equipment and resources for home learning during the coronavirus crisis
News

SEND: Families can apply for share of £10m in coronavirus crisis home-learning fund

Funding
News

Coronavirus: Educational gaps widen during lockdown

Inclusion
Tulip Siddiq, Labour's shadow minister for children and early years
Opinion

'It is unclear how the Government expects early years settings to open at all'

Coronavirus
Margaret Greenwood MP, shadow schools minister
News

Labour schools shadow calls for baseline assessment to be cancelled

Observation, Assessment & Planning
Lockdown is leading to more children being exposed to secondhand smoke, research suggests
News

Coronavirus: Children more at risk of secondhand smoke in lockdown

Health
Government has told childminders they can return to work from today
News

'Absolute joke': Childminders on being told they can reopen with less than 24 hours' notice

Policy & Politics
Uncertainty around nursery provision is causing ongoing problems for healthcare workers, with some unable to work because they have no childcare
News

Doctors call for more funding for nurseries caring for key worker children

Coronavirus
PACEY's 2019 campaign about the role of childminders may not have reached the government's lockdown exit plan document
News

Childminders left confused by mixed messaging from Government over work return

Policy & Politics
Leonor Stjepic, CEO of Montessori Group UK
News

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Lockdown has boosted parents' respect for early years staff, says Montessori poll

Families
Gavin Williamson
News

DfE releases new guidance for early years settings and schools ahead of wider opening

Coronavirus
Nurseries will be able to prioritise the return of three- and four-year-olds before younger children
News

Coronavirus: DfE guidance - key points for opening for more children from 1 June

Coronavirus
Childminders will be able to reopen to after children from the same household from 13 May
News

Breaking: DfE confirms that childminders can now open from tomorrow for children from one household

Coronavirus
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has extended the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme until October
News

Chancellor extends furlough scheme until October

Coronavirus
The Government has said it wants 'a phased' return to school from 1 June
News

Childcare providers and schools call for clarity on plans to re-open settings to more children

Coronavirus
The Government has published what it calls a roadmap to lifting the lockdown. Playgrounds will stay closed. PHOTO Catherine Gaunt
News

Early years settings in England to reopen in June in Government's lockdown exit plan

Coronavirus
A quarter of parents said that they would be happy with a September return date for children going back to school
News

9 in 10 parents do not want children to go back to school as soon as lockdown ends

Coronavirus

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