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Raising of training standard 'causes a rift' in the early years workforce

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

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An early years apprentice shares her experiences and thoughts on the government's decision not to recognise "functional skills qualifications" for maths and English in the early years educator (EYE) course requirements, which will become the new sector standard for progression into management from September.

Ask the Experts: Address parents' school concerns

Monday, September 14, 2015

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Our panel offers advice on improving a struggling academy, career crisis, advice on "legal highs" and ensuring a healthy diet in nursery

Daily roundup: Childcare ratios, sex education and videogames

Friday, April 12, 2013

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A childminder scolds the childcare minister, youth leaders raise concerns over sex education and game companies face probe over pressurising children, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Strike action, Universal Credit and tobacco warnings

Thursday, September 5, 2013

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Teachers threaten walk out over pay and conditions; government's welfare reform programme criticised; and graphic tobacco warnings fail to dissuade teenage smokers, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Care proceedings, teacher training, and physical education

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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Social workers to get help understanding care proceedings legislation; teacher training on SEN insufficient; and most pupils "not bothered" by loss of competitive school sport, all in the news today.

Ask the Expert: Nursery transitions

Monday, June 25, 2012

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Anti-ratios campaigning pays off

Monday, June 10, 2013

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Proposals to change childcare ratios might be abandoned, but campaigners pledge to fight off other reforms.

Daily roundup: reading skills, nursery complaints, and youth worker cuts

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

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Poor seven-year-olds falling behind affluent peers in reading; nursery owner slams Ofsted over complaint-driven inspections; and 100 youth worker jobs at risk in Essex, all in the news today.

Ask the Experts: Helping parents to love the rain

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

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Ask the Expert: Snow safety

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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Professionals fear reforms will jeopardise quality of childcare

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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Reforms to improve the quality, standards and status of the early years workforce, while relaxing regulations around staff-to-child ratios are dividing opinion in the early years sector

Ask the Experts: Retain a strong voice for children

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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Our panel offers advice on the future of DCSs, helping children of substance misusers, improving speech skills and conflict resolution.

Daily roundup: Narey backs ratios, childminders don't; and adjusting grades to birth dates

Friday, May 10, 2013

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Former Barnardo's chief Narey backs increase in childcare ratios, but three quarters of childminders do not, and the IFS calls for exam grading to be linked to a child's birth date, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Childcare funding, youth homelessness and school dinners

Friday, June 21, 2013

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Survey shows free childcare funding gap, no referrals for 60 per cent of young claiming 'housing need', and closure threat for thousands of school canteens, all in the news today.

Ask The Expert: Playing with shapes

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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Q: One of the children at the nursery where I work has became fascinated by the shapes of things. How can we use shape as part of children's learning?

Families key to success of free childcare plans

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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Here is something of a bombshell for the government's £1.7bn programme to offer free childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds: when these children turn five, that provision will have had no impact on their learning and development.

Daily roundup: Heart surgery, Ofsted statistics, and measles outbreak

Friday, April 5, 2013

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Children's heart surgery to resume in Leeds, concern over number of daycare settings rated as inadequate, and measles outbreak in Swansea continues, all in the news today.

Ask the Experts: Run supportive training sessions

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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Our panel offers advice on delivering sensitive training, school place planning, bilingual nursery support and a bereaved young carer.

Slimmed-down EYFS proposals win support across the sector

Monday, April 4, 2011

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Dame Clare Tickell's call for evidence for her review into the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) attracted an overwhelming response, with more than 3,300 organisations, practitioners and parents eager to have their say.

Daily roundup: Pupil premium, childcare standards and youth apprenticeships

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

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The government is to raise the pupil premium among primary school reforms, a government international comparison of childcare places the UK fourth, and almost three quarters of Neet young people cannot access apprenticeships.

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