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Private and voluntary nurseries have to access lateral flow tests themselves by sending staff to community testing sites, unlike schools and maintained nurseries that are sent test kits
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Coronavirus: All PVI nurseries to be sent home-testing kits

Coronavirus
#ThumbsUpForEarlyYears: Nursery World editor Liz Roberts
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Early years sector unites to give thumbs up for early years

Coronavirus
Anne Longfield: 'Too often the people in charge of the systems children need simply don’t see them and try to understand their world'
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Children's commissioner Anne Longfield takes ministers to task in final speech

Coronavirus
Outdoor play is 'vital' to children's well-being and playgrounds are an essential public service for all children, play organisations have said
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Rules around children's playgrounds should be clearer, say campaigners

Coronavirus
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Coronavirus: Nurseries speak out about confusion over priority for vaccine

Coronavirus
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on a visit to a nursery in 2018
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London Mayor calls for Government to step in to support capital's 'struggling' nurseries

Provision
More than 4 in 10 early years workers surveyed said they had noticed signs that children in their care had their emotional wellbeing affected by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown
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Early years staff struggling to support children's emotional and behavioural needs

Mental Health & Well-Being
Sheila, a volunteer at baby bank Little Village, sorts through donations to the charity PHOTO Little Village
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Over a million children under five living in poverty - report

Child Poverty
The need to recruit more male apprentices to work in early years settings is also being highlighted during National Apprenticeship Week
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Call for large businesses to transfer unspent apprenticeship levy to the early years sector

Apprenticeships
Co-op Childcare offered free childcare to parents who lost their jobs as a result of coronavirus
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Coronavirus: Co-op Childcare wins award for supporting families during pandemic

Coronavirus
Childminders in Scotland will be able to apply for grants to support their businesses during the pandemic
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Coronavirus: Childminders in Scotland to receive sustainability grants

Coronavirus
The number of early years settings reporting incidents of coronavirus nearly doubled during the week of 11 January
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Covid cases in early years settings nearly double in a week

Coronavirus
'Playground closures are 'catastrophic for children’s mental health, fitness, development and well-being', says the API
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Play spaces must be kept open, or children will suffer, sector warns

Coronavirus
Private and voluntary nurseries have to access lateral flow tests themselves by sending staff to community testing sites, unlike schools and maintained nurseries that are sent test kits
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Coronavirus: London nursery group forks out £6,000 a week for Covid testing kits

Coronavirus
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Children in London ‘at risk’ of falling behind due to the pandemic

Coronavirus
A growing number of nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are having to temporarily close because of Covid-19
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Coronavirus: Nurseries report increase in temporary closures

Coronavirus

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