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Carey Oppenheim: Changing public conversation around the importance of the early years

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The research from the EYA and LEYF reveals the struggle many childcare providers are facing to provide nutritious meals due to rising living costs, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Cost-of-living crisis impacts settings' abilities to provide healthy meals

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Parents have already staged a protest against the closure of the nursery, with further protests planned
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Brighton parents campaigning against closure of council-run nursery

Families
The JRF's annual report on poverty reveals the scale of the problem in the UK, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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'Heartbreaking and wrong' that a million young children are growing up in poverty

Policy & Politics
The report finds the cost-of-living crisis is widening inequalities, especially in the North of England. PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Children in the North of England most impacted by economic crisis, warn MPs

Families
Nursery children playing with a Fisher Price telephone, first released in the 1960s, PHOTO Busy Bees
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Parents storing their old Barbies, Rubik's Cubes and Fisher Price Toys to pass on to their children

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The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, visited Foxcubs Nursery in Luton, PHOTO Kensington Palace
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Princess of Wales visits Luton nursery to discuss the value of early education

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The Early Years Equality action group has set a date for a protest in London
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Early years action group to stage protest in March

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Staff involved in the new Bright Space include, from left to right: Gemma Hunter, detective inspector, Alice Groves, deputy manager at Bright Horizons Fair Oak Day Nursery
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Bright Horizons opens new Bright Space in police premises

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Researchers will look into toddlers' use of digital technology and how they develop early talk, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Researchers to study how toddlers learn to communicate using technology

Families
Early year providers and parents are calling for more investment and say childcare reforms are urgently needed PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Rishi Sunak believed to have scrapped childcare ratio changes

Policy & Politics
The Education Select Committee has launched an inquiry into the affordability of childcare, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Cross-party MPs launch inquiry into childcare affordability

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Children's Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza has published the second part of her Family Review on behalf of the Government
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Children's Commissioner for England puts forward recommendations to better support families

Families
Action for Children has published findings from its survey of parents and staff to launch its annual Secret Santa campaign, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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A fifth of working parents worried about affording Christmas presents

Families
Stella Creasy MP has tabled the amendment to the Levelling up and Regeneration Bill, PHOTO @stellacreasy
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MPs seek law change so childcare is recognised as vital infrastructure

Families
While cases of Group A Strep are higher than usual this year, the bacteria usually causes a mild infection, producing sore throats or scarlet fever that can be easily treated with antibiotics PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Eighty-five cases of invasive Strep A found in one- to- four-year-olds in England

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