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Alison Featherbe
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Alison Featherbe: 'Lessons from past safeguarding cases have driven the need for clarity'

Early Years Curriculum
Anne Longfield: 'One five-year-old child had been excluded 17 times between Easter and Christmas'
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Anne Longfield: 'Inclusion, not exclusion'

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Nicola Demetriadi: Schools which tap into new two-year-old funding stream is a 'worrying trend'

Provision
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Brett Wigdortz: Landlords should be encouraged to accommodate childminders, but so should local authorities

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Tammy Campbell: We need to ensure the extended entitlement doesn't worsen inequalities and disadvangtage

Viewpoint
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Jodie Reed: 'Can the extended free childcare offer be delivered'?

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Beatrice Merrick: Early Education's Centenary provides long view of sector's achievements and challenges

Policy & Politics
Sarah Mackenzie
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Sarah Mackenzie: 'A plan for gender equity'

Policy & Politics
Claire Coutinho: 'I am always struck by the positivity and commitment of staff members'
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Exclusive – Children's minister Claire Coutinho: 'A genuinely radical plan'

Viewpoint
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Janet King: Additional childcare funding is welcome, but there's still long-term workforce challenges to solve

Viewpoint
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Rebekah Jackson Reece: Extra Government funding to increase supply of wrap-around care 'will do nothing to support a sector already in crisis'

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Christine Farquharson, IFS
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Christine Farquharson, IFS: Childcare reforms create a new branch of the welfare state – but raises the stakes on funding

Viewpoint
Maggie Bolger: 'There are a number of viable solutions that will have far greater impact than a quick fix, headline grabbing £500 sign-on bonus'
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Maggie Bolger: 'Why a £500 sign-on bonus for childcare workers won't work'

Funding
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Anne Longfield: Why the Government's commitment to Family Hubs is 'not enough'

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Megan Stephans: 'Hope can be found, now as it was in Dickens' time, in people’s willingness to help'
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Megan Stephens: How the legacy of Victorian philanthropy lives on in the campaign for free school meals

Child Poverty
James Hempsall, founder of Hempsall's Early Years (hey!)
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