Closing the Gap

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Funding scheme boosts early speech and language intervention

Speech & Language
The disadvantage gap among young children is thought to have widened as a result of nursery and school closures during the pandemic but more evidence is needed
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Research to look at impact of lockdown on Reception children's readiness for school

Coronavirus
In local authorities where social mobility is low it is much harder to escape deprivation
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Education alone will not close social mobility gap - study

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Disadvantaged children need 'long-term' catch-up support as learning gap grows

Coronavirus
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Attainment gap 'stagnant' for early years, says new research

Child Poverty
Schools and settings have started to reopen to primary children this week, after being closed to all but vulnerable children and key workers since 20 March
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Coronavirus: 10 years of closing the gap reversed by school closures

Coronavirus
The Department for Education (DfE) falls short of its target for the take-up of funded two-year-old places
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Free childcare entitlement 'not levelling the playing field' for disadvantaged children

Closing the Gap
The campaign group want 30-hour childcare to be made available to all children Image by Equality for Disadvantaged Children
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Campaigners call for 30-hour childcare to be made universal to close disadvantage gap

Closing the Gap
Thousands more children are expected to benefit from the additional funding for breakfast clubs
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Government extends breakfast club programme until 2021

Closing the Gap
Pembury House Nursery School in Haringey chose to spend part of its EYPP funding on art projects to develop sustained shared thinking (2016)
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EYPP funding slashed by 40 per cent, report reveals

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Bows and Arrows, a charity that owns six nurseries in Ipswich, an Opportunity Area
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£18m extension to Opportunity Area programme

Closing the Gap
Bows and Arrows owns six nurseries that are in areas of deprivation in Ipswich
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Opportunity Areas: Ipswich - In evidence

Management
The survey found that Conservative councillors are concerned their councils will become unsustainable
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Conservative councillors say cuts to children's services are causing harm

Policy & Politics
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Minister for change?

Policy & Politics
Opinion

Helping parents earlier

Viewpoint
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Progress on closing the disadvantage gap in early years at a standstill

Child Development

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