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What will the new year bring?
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New Year Wishes 2023: Overcoming challenges while supporting families

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Marg Randles
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Interview – Marg Randles, co-founder and chief academic officer, Busy Bees Childcare

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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

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Ptashenya kindergartens have stayed open without heating and power. Staff take children outside into the playground to focus on gross-motor skills development in the daytime PHOTO: Ptashenya kindergartens
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Ukraine kindergartens appeal for help in winter power crisis

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DfE announces increases to early years funding that are branded 'tokenistic' by sector

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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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The latest DfE statistics reveal a loss of 6,600 early years providers between 2018 and 2020 PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Number of early years providers fallen by 10 per cent over four years

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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

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Family First has bought the Cherry Childcare chain of 11 settings
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Family First buys nursery group of 11 sites

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Ofsted highlights the recruitment crisis leading to nursery closures in its annual report PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Ofsted annual report – Workforce crisis affecting children's recovery from pandemic

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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

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The IFS report estimates spending on the ‘free’ entitlement will ‘buy’ 9 per cent less in 2024-25 compared with 2021-22, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Education spending report warns the economic 'squeeze' for the childcare sector is yet to be felt

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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

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The Schools Bill which faced criticism over measures to make all schools academies has been scrapped, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Government drops widely criticised Schools Bill

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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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The joint IPPR and Save the Children report makes a case for universal childcare, which it claims would save a family with young children between £620 and £6,175 a year in childcare costs PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Universal childcare up to 11 would save parents thousands and add billions to economy – report

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