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Participation in Action: Teens work with toddlers to gain skills and shine

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

| CYP Now

A programme first launched in California in the 1970s is achieving impressive results by helping troubled teenagers volunteer in nurseries.

Funding for free childcare insufficient, sector warns

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Friday, December 20, 2013

| CYP Now

A government scheme delivering free childcare places to disadvantaged two-year-olds is not financially viable, early years experts say.

£755m to fund free childcare expansion

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

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Local authorities will receive £755m to deliver free childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds from next September, the government has announced.

Think-tank backs children's centres to take early years lead

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Friday, December 13, 2013

| CYP Now

A universal childcare model delivered by children's centres could boost the economy by £1.5bn, according to a new report.

£8m fund to tackle London's childcare shortage

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Friday, December 13, 2013

| CYP Now

The government has given a funding boost to early years services in London after figures show only half of the capital's councils have enough nursery places available to provide free childcare for all disadvantaged two-year-olds.

Free childcare helps reduce depression risk, finds research

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

| CYP Now

The provision of government-funded childcare enables single mothers to achieve a positive work-life balance, which in turn reduces the risk of depression, according to new research.

Rating downgrades 'threaten free childcare scheme'

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Monday, December 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Early years providers say tougher inspections will make it harder for the sector to provide all the nursery places needed to deliver the government's free childcare scheme.

Complained-about childcare settings face greater downgrade risk, data shows

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

| CYP Now

Early years settings that receive a complaint are nearly twice as likely to have their Ofsted rating downgraded as those that do not, new analysis suggests.

DfE doubles early years apprenticeship bursary

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Monday, November 25, 2013

| CYP Now

A government bursary scheme designed to encourage more people to become childcare professionals has been doubled to £3,000.

Third of councils lack free childcare places

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

| CYP Now

One in three local authorities do not have enough nursery places available to provide free childcare for all disadvantaged two-year-olds, new figures show.

Attempt to legally limit childcare ratios fails

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Friday, November 15, 2013

| CYP Now

The door has been left open for the government to increase staff-to-child ratios in early years settings after plans to put current limits into law were scrapped.

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?

Daily roundup: Children playing sport, Labour moots return of EMA, and North-East young people have it the hardest

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Monday, October 28, 2013

| CYP Now

Concerns over children playing sport too early; Labour hints at reintroduction of student support; and the North East judged the worst place to be young in the UK, all in the news today.

Outcomes focus for new Ofsted early years framework

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Friday, October 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Safeguarding, safety and teaching are set to be the focus of Ofsted's new inspection framework for nurseries, the inspectorate's early years lead has said.

Huge rise in complaint-driven nursery inspections

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of early years providers inspected as a result of a complaint made to Ofsted increased six-fold in less than a year.

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.