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Anti-ratios campaigning pays off
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- Monday, June 10, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Tuesday, October 8, 2013 | CYP Now
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.
Professionals fear reforms will jeopardise quality of childcare
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- Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | CYP Now
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
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- Friday, May 10, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Friday, June 21, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Friday, April 5, 2013 | CYP Now
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
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- Tuesday, February 2, 2016 | CYP Now
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
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- Monday, April 4, 2011 | CYP Now
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
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- Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | CYP Now
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.
Early years settings prepare for EYFS reforms
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- Monday, April 16, 2012 | CYP Now
With the new framework due to be implemented in September, the coming weeks will be critical in assuring young children benefit from the changes
High-qualified early years workforce will benefit all
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- Monday, June 25, 2012 | CYP Now
Three Cs go to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's final report to the government on early years qualifications: it is clear, compelling and courageous.
Daily roundup: Health "timebomb" for Neets, council loses data, and school starting age demo
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- Wednesday, October 30, 2013 | CYP Now
Health risks for Neets highlighted, council fined for losing children's data, and Too Much Too Soon campaign reaches parliament, all in the news today.
How parental input improves literacy
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- Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | CYP Now
Volunteers support young children's literacy development by encouraging families to read
Will toddlers save children's centres?
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- Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | CYP Now
Providers believe the two-year-old free childcare entitlement could stem the tide of children's centre closures
Daily roundup: Exclusion inequalities, the Budget and early years teachers
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- Thursday, March 21, 2013 | CYP Now
Children unfairly excluded from schools, campaigners say the Budget failed disadvantaged children, and DfE consults on early years teacher standards, all in the news today.
'Schoolification' is not the answer to narrow the gap
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- Monday, April 14, 2014 | CYP Now
Patience is a virtue in short supply in public services, particularly among politicians and policymakers. There can be few areas where this is more evident than in education, where initiatives and overhauls of curriculums, exams and structures seem to come ever thicker and faster. A couple of weeks ago, early years providers discovered how impatient the government and its agencies are to raise standards, with the sector's record for improving the outcomes for disadvantaged children coming under scrutiny.
Daily roundup: Child support, missing children and outsourcing
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- Wednesday, May 21, 2014 | CYP Now
Changes to child maintenance system; new national missing children's campaign launches; and children's services chief enters outsourcing debate, all in the news today.
Daily roundup: Care applications, school holidays and social care
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- Thursday, July 10, 2014 | CYP Now
Data reveals increase in care applications; police chief urges leniency for school term-time leave requests from officers; and president of children's services directors criticised for social worker comments, all in the news today.
Editorial: Quality of childcare should win against race for places
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- Monday, August 18, 2014 | CYP Now
A key policy drive to intervene early and boost social mobility comes into force on 1 September - free childcare places for 15 hours a week will expand from 20 per cent to the 40 per cent most disadvantaged two-year-olds.
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