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DfE confirms ministerial responsibilities

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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

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The Department for Education has confirmed the responsibilities of its ministers.

King’s Speech 2024: Sector welcomes mental health and education support

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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Sector leaders have welcomed elements of the King's Speech linked to services for children's mental health and education but have questioned the omission of issues including children's social care reform and votes for 16-and 17-year-olds.

Young children with SEND face ‘widest attainment gap on record’

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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

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Disadvantaged reception-aged children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are academically further behind their non-disadvantaged peers than at any other time on record, according to a new report.

Council gives nurseries six months to find school or academy partner

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

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Croydon Council is warning two of its maintained nurseries that they need to find an academy or primary school partner within six months to ensure they are financially sustainable.

General Election 2024: Next government urged to prioritise children as voters go to polls

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Thursday, July 4, 2024

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As voters across the UK go to the polls, children’s sector leaders and campaigners are strengthening calls for the next government to focus on young people.

Enough funding for providers is voters’ top childcare priority ahead of election

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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

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Voters believe the best way to improve early education and childcare is to ensure providers are properly funded to deliver government schemes such as the expansion of free childcare hours for working families.

Nine in 10 councils ‘not confident’ they can deliver full funded childcare expansion

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

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Just under nine in 10 councils are not confident there will be enough childcare places in their area to meet the government’s full expansion of free hours for children from working families.

Council spending on early years and children’s services set for dramatic real-terms increase, data shows

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

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Local authority spending on early years provision is set to increase by almost half this year while children’s social care costs could see a real-terms increase of 11%, according to government data.

Longfield calls for new government poverty unit ahead of general election

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

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Former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield has called for the next government to establish a poverty unit sitting within Downing Street as part of a 10-point plan to halve child poverty by 2029.

Multi-agency data sharing must be improved to boost child development, say early years leaders

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

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The next government needs to develop a national dataset encompassing education, health and social care details for all children, according to recommendations made ahead of July’s general election by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

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DfE confirms ministerial responsibilities

King’s Speech 2024: Sector welcomes mental health and education support

Young children with SEND face ‘widest attainment gap on record’

Council gives nurseries six months to find school or academy partner

General Election 2024: Next government urged to prioritise children as voters go to polls

Enough funding for providers is voters’ top childcare priority ahead of election

Nine in 10 councils ‘not confident’ they can deliver full funded childcare expansion

Council spending on early years and children’s services set for dramatic real-terms increase, data shows

Longfield calls for new government poverty unit ahead of general election

Multi-agency data sharing must be improved to boost child development, say early years leaders

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