The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has published a report evaluating the impact of training health visitors in the use of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), a tool to help with routine checks to promote...
Campaigners are warning that financial pressures on nurseries are limiting their ability to invest in early intervention and support for children. Sector body National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said new...
Childminding could disappear within the next decade without urgent government intervention, a charity has warned.
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Official figures show that 1,342 children’s centres have closed over the last decade. The number of full children’s centres dropped from 3,615 in 2010 to just 2,773 last year, according to analysis of figures revealed...
Widening eligibility for free school meals could not only reduce the number of children facing food insecurity but remove the stigma felt by those who do receive them, researchers have said. A study by York University...
“Considerably more” children from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds have missed out on formal early learning during the Covid-19 pandemic compared with their peers, new research has found. The number of...
Campaigners have branded an uplift in funding for universal infant free school meals “inadequate”, saying funding announced by the Department for Education amounts to just 7p per pupil for each meal. Education...
Fees up by 52%, compared to 17% increase in nominal wages. Families left with £4,700 annual shortfalls even after government support. Working parents with children under five have seen nursery fees rise three...
More than 8,000 babies across England have been selected to take part in the first national cohort study in 20 years, which looks at child development and family circumstances in the 2020s. Read the full article on this...
Ministers have been accused of cutting corners and endangering children after the government confirmed it would consult on cutting childcare staffing ratios so that one adult can look after five two-year-olds. Read the...
Hundreds of early years staff, teachers and academics have signed an open letter urging the Prime Minister not to press ahead with rumoured plans to relax childcare staffing ratios. The letter, written by chief...
Early years providers can’t attract qualified workers and the crisis will put prices up, increasing the burden on struggling families
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Early years leaders have criticised “short-sighted” plans, being discussed by the government, to relax childcare ratios in England. Proposals to reduce the numbers of staff needed per child in nurseries were discussed...
