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The Government proposes allowing childminders more flexibility with ratios when looking after their own children or siblings of other children they already care for PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Ministers seek to attract more childminders by 'streamlining' Ofsted registration process

Policy & Politics
The Early Years Alliance has written to the health minister outlining its concerns about planned changes to the scheme, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Fears providers will withdrawal from free milk scheme if they have to do more admin

Policy & Politics
The report from the EIF, Race Equality Foundation and Action for Children highlights the negative experiences of ethnic minority families when trying to access family support services PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Family support services need to do more to help minority ethnic families - report

Policy & Politics
Maintained nursery schools around England are struggling to survive and many fear closure, according to the survey PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Maintained nursery schools running at a loss forced to cut teachers and support for disadvantaged families

Policy & Politics
The latest DfE statistics include figures on the take-up of childcare funding and how many providers are offering places, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Number of children in receipt of early years pupil premium at record high

Funding
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Call for more focus on children's speech and language in Schools Bill

Communication and Language
The Covid inquiry will now look at the impact the pandemic has had on very young children, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Covid inquiry to now consider the pandemic's impact on children in the early years

Coronavirus
Theirworld Global Youth Ambassadors Yuv Sungkur and Elizabeth Pennington at the UN Summit where they delivered their letter to world leaders
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World leaders told to invest in the early years to 'avert a crisis'

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There has been a greater loss in nursery places in deprived areas, Ofsted figures show PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Fall of more than 4,000 childcare providers in a year

Provision
Laura Weir, manager of Rosedene nursery, Hardwick: 'We are seeing the damaging effects of the ever-growing cost-of-living crisis, so we felt it was responsible to do something to help'
News

Analysis: Early years settings step up support for families as cost of living crisis hits

Analysis
Parent Rachel Massey is calling for the funded childcare hours to be available as soon as a child turns three rather than the term after PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Petition urges Government to make funded childcare available as soon as a child turns three

Funding
The DfE's national plan for music education has been 'refreshed' to cover the early years PHOTO Adobe Stock
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DfE's national plan for music extended to the early years

Music & Rhymes
The research from the IFS compares the development of children born in the early 2000's and a decade later, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Little progress made in closing the development gap in children over a decade - IFS

Birth to Threes
The London Early Years Foundation is calling for funding for nursery food and nutritional standards in early years settings PHOTO Isabelle Johnson/London Early Years Foundation
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Nursery group calls for funding to improve access to high-quality nursery food for vulnerable children

Provision
The Early Years Alliance campaign aims to educate parents and politicians on the importance of early learning and the role of educators
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Early Years Alliance launches its #WeAreEducators campaign

Policy & Politics
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Opinion

How the Building on Success training programme has helped me navigate change

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