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Early years innovation receives Harvard University boost

Monday, January 21, 2019

| CYP Now

An early years initiative aimed at reducing isolation and stress among families in deprived areas is to benefit from Harvard University research and development support.

Research Report: Evaluating the contribution of the Family Nurse Partnership

Other

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Authors Kevin D Browne and Vicki Jackson, Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, University of Nottingham Medical School Published by Journal of Public Health, May 2013

Behind the Inspection Rating: ‘Smart table' supports learners

Other

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

| CYP Now

How creative thinking and parent engagement helped Busy Bees Evesham achieve an outstanding rating in its latest Ofsted inspection.

Staffed play provision missing from childcare plans

News

Friday, July 26, 2013

| CYP Now

The government's childcare plans ignore the importance of staffed after-school play provision, experts have warned.

MP warns over inadequate childcare funding levels

News

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

| CYP Now

The childcare system is "unsustainable" with inadequate funding rates threatening the future of providers, an MP who secured a debate on the issue has warned.

Childcare professionals reject DfE plans to simplify staff management

News

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

| CYP Now

Plans to remove requirements on childcare settings to regularly appraise staff and improve qualification levels have been criticised by early years professionals.

Charity's guiding light: Julie Bentley, chief executive of Action for Children

Features

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

| CYP Now

Derren Hayes meets Julie Bentley, chief executive of Action for Children.

Shared Picture Book Reading and Language Development

Research

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| CYP Now

Training parents to share picture books with their children has long been seen as a strategy to support development through scaffolding early cognition and language development.

Daily roundup: Sexual exploitation, youth unemployment and children's centres

Other

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Government's response on child sexual exploitation criticised; small rise in youth unemployment; and minister plays down significance of children's centre closures, all in the news today.

Ofsted data management frustrates early years sector

News

Friday, September 20, 2013

| CYP Now

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has questioned Ofsted's management of inspection data, after the regulator was unable to give it details of how many early years providers had been downgraded following complaints about services.

Extend 30 hours to more families, urges social mobility body

News

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

| CYP Now

The government should extend the 30 hours childcare entitlement to all parents working eight hours a week to ensure it reaches more low-income families, the Social Mobility Commission has said.

Daily roundup: New BAAF chief, child runaways, and child exploitation

Other

Friday, September 20, 2013

| CYP Now

Srabani Sen to take over as BAAF chief executive; 32 councils sign charity's Runaway Charter; and children being forced to perform sex acts online, all in the news today.

Childminders should be wary of pilot agencies, warns early years expert

News

Friday, October 4, 2013

| CYP Now

An early years expert has warned childminders to be wary of signing up to agencies being piloted by the Department for Education.

Ofsted early years guidance needs more clarity, says Alliance

News

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

| CYP Now

The weight given by inspectors to a nursery's complaints history in deciding its Ofsted grading needs to be clarified, says the chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.