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Expressive arts and design: An autumn glow

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Parent: Getting into print

Annette Rawstrone provides ideas for how parents can implement practical, everyday strategies to...

Understanding the world: Feeling crushed

Extend children's understanding of recycling by involving them in making paper and experiencing the...

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Coronavirus: New online information sessions launched to help schools adjust to the challenges of providing early years and childcare

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Training consultancy Hempsall’s has launched a new programme to support schools to manage their early years provision for long term sustainability.

Around a third of early years settings remain closed, official figures show

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Approximately a third of early years settings have not yet reopened following the easing of lockdown, statistics from the Department of Education reveal.

Coronavirus: Testing shortage hits childcare sector as nursery staff and childminders struggling to access tests are left unable to work

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The Early Years Alliance calls for childcare sector to gain priority access to coronavirus testing, following growing reports of nursery staff and childminders being unable to work as a result of test shortages.

Children’s charity key workers warn of ‘new wave’ of families set to be plunged into the ‘bleakest’ winter crisis

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

As winter, the end of furlough and a second Covid outbreak loom, a new Action for Children report warns a wave of families who were ‘just about managing’ now face financial crisis.