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. Share this: Share on X (Opens in...
New Early Childhood research exploring Do Parents and Practitioners Understand the Importance of Their Interactions with Young Children and Babies to Support Their Speech Development?
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...
Labour pledges 300 new state nurseries in England within 12 months
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...
More than 400 nurseries closed over last two years, research finds
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...
Young children with SEND face ‘widest attainment gap on record’
Disadvantaged reception-aged children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are academically further behind their non-disadvantaged peers than at any other time on record, according to a new report...
Enough funding for providers is voters’ top childcare priority ahead of election
Voters believe the best way to improve early education and childcare is to ensure providers are properly funded to deliver government schemes such as the expansion of free childcare hours for working families. This was...
