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Tulip Siddiq has been reappointed as shadow minister for children and early years
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Shadow early years minister to meet with sector to discuss coronavirus impact

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Nurseries have now been given limits on accessing the furlough scheme
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Government makes U-turn on nurseries' access to furlough cash

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The portal will provide an overview of how many settings have closed, as well as numbers of children in those which have stayed open
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New project to track Covid-19 impact on early years sector

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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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Cary Rankin: 'How do we navigate the unchartered, the new, the unknown, while keeping our moral compass fixed on helping those who need childcare to get to work?' 
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'We will come through this together'

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Health visitors say that workforce numbers in some parts of the UK have been cut by up to 70%
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Coronavirus 'taking key NHS staff away from vulnerable children'

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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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Nurseries are staying open for vulnerable children as well as children of key workers
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Coronavirus - Staying open

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'The Hairy Toe' story time: 'We have two roles: one, supporting those families who have continued to come in to us, and the other, reaching out to the families we no longer physically see each day'
Opinion

One nursery on how its #keepintouch campaign is supporting families

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Thousands of new childminders at risk of closure without Government support

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