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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This page captures the activities and outputs from the Early Childhood Community of Practice @ Birmingham Newman University which began with its launch event on the evening of Wednesday 5th April 2023. To date over...
Primary schools are invited to be among the first to offer free breakfast clubs as part of a government move to tackle food poverty. Up to 750 early adopter settings will be funded to provide the clubs from April 2025...
Boosted child development tops the list of gains from formal early years education, according to a survey of over 2,000 parents. These improvements – including in the areas of communication, social skills, confidence...
Nurseries are facing closure or having to increase fees for families due to planned increases in employer national insurance contributions and the minimum wage, warns the Early Years Alliance (EYA). Read the full...
Konnie Huq, Jamie Oliver, David Baddiel, Adam Kay, Mary Portas and Joseph Coelho are among those collaborating on an ebook about the climate crisis which will be free to access for every UK primary school. The ebook...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has published a report evaluating the impact of access to Sure Start early years centres on children’s absence and suspensions at school, youth offending and contacts with the...
Support for children under the age of five through the Sure Start programme “significantly reduced” the chances of offending when they reached adolescence, a report has found. Read more.
Samantha Broadhouse explores Do Parents and Practitioners Understand the Importance of Their Interactions with Young Children and Babies to Support Their Speech Development? as part of her undergraduate Early Childhood...
Three hundred new state nurseries will open in England’s schools by next September, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has promised, as the government hurries to find places before the introduction of free...
Over the last two academic years 415 nurseries have been forced to close, impacting places for more than 20,000 children, research has revealed. It found that in the 12 months to September this year 199 nurseries...
