Category - Early Years

Early years leaders have hit out at rumoured government plans to relax childcare ratios. According to the Telegraph, ministers are looking at implementing changes allowing each childminder to look after more toddlers at one time. Current guidance...

The government is being urged to learn lessons from the Sure Start children’s centre initiative amid an expansion of Family Hubs across the country.
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A commission of MPs and children’s campaigners has identified ending child poverty as a core priority for improving early years support and learning in the next decade. The Early Years Commission, which is co-chaired by former children’s minister...

Health professionals have warned that cuts to health visiting and school nursing services in Hampshire risk harming children and could be replicated across England.
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Children’s health organisations have warned that restarting a scheme to weigh children in schools could increase young people’s risk of developing eating disorders. The government has announced that the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)...

Ministers have been accused of “shamelessly, knowingly” underfunding the early years sector in England over the past decade, driving childcare costs up and quality down, after a two-year investigation by a body representing the sector. Read the full...