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Early reading

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  • Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  • | CYP Now
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named 2008 as the National Year of Reading. Mathew Little finds out how approaches to helping children learn to read vary between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Polyclinics must connect to Sure Start

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  • Tuesday, April 22, 2008
  • | CYP Now
Polyclinics, the government-proposed centres that bring together GP and hospital services, must co-ordinate their work with schools and Sure Start children's centres, the NHS Confederation has urged.

Outside play is crucial, say parents

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  • Tuesday, March 23, 2010
  • | CYP Now
More than three quarters of British adults think the next government should have policies to ensure children can play outside more, according to research published this week.

Kate Greenaway Nursery School, Islington, London

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  • Friday, March 26, 2010
  • | CYP Now
What was it? About 300 families joined in celebrations to mark the end of the children's literature festival at Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre and the nearby Lewis Carroll Library on Saturday 13 March.

Social bonds could fund vital work

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  • Monday, March 29, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The government has committed to investigate raising millions of pounds for early intervention work through social bonds, prompting charity Action for Children to hail it as a major step forward.

Councils stall on training fund

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  • Tuesday, April 29, 2008
  • | CYP Now
Local authorities are refusing to allocate the Graduate Leader Fund for early years workers for more than one year at a time, CYP Now has learned.

NSPCC probed over Rantzen PA

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  • Monday, April 26, 2010
  • | CYP Now
The NSPCC has been accused of breaking the rules governing charities' involvement in the general election, by allegedly allowing an employee to work on Luton South independent candidate Esther Rantzen's campaign, CYP Now has learned.

News Insight: Balls finds the going tough in Morley

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  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
  • | CYP Now
In the final of three reports from around the country, Neil Puffett takes CYP Now's "Election 2010 Bus" to Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire to investigate the issues facing children in the constituency being contested by Children's Secretary Ed Balls.

Canterbury

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  • Monday, May 10, 2010
  • | CYP Now
What did they do? Children and parents in Canterbury are getting in shape thanks to a healthy living programme for all the family. Mend 2-4: Mind, Exercise, Nutrition ...Do it!, is a project that gets families with children aged between two and four learning about how to have the healthiest start in life.

CWDC publishes qualifications list

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  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has published a new qualifications list, which all early years practitioners must adhere to from September next year.

Low-income parents reject childcare

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  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
  • | CYP Now
The government's efforts to get low-income parents to return to work by increasing the take-up of formal childcare are failing, according to its own research.

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