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Education committee launches primary assessment investigation

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Sep 23, 2016
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The government鈥檚 education committee is to launch an inquiry into primary assessment following what the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has called 鈥渃haos and confusion鈥 around the topic.
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Earlier this...Read more

Button batteries can be deadly for children, surgeons claim

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Sep 23, 2016
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Small button batteries 鈥 found in a range of domestic items 鈥 can burn a hole through the lining of a child鈥檚 oesophagus should they accidently swallow them, surgeons have claimed.
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London鈥檚 Great Ormond Street...Read more

Alliance calls on government to admit 30-hours funding crisis

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Sep 22, 2016
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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has said that the government must 鈥渃ome clean鈥 about the problems with the funding of the 30-hours free childcare scheme.
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The Department for Education ran a consultation on early...Read more

Healthy eating impacts children鈥檚 literacy, study claims

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Sep 19, 2016
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Researchers in Finland have claimed that a healthy diet has a significant impact on children鈥檚 literacy skills.
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The universities of Eastern Finland and Jyv盲skyl盲 studied 161 children between the ages of six and...Read more

Report calls for government to scrap 30-hours offer

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Sep 7, 2016
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has called on the government not to implement the 30-hours offer, in a report titled, 鈥榃e can solve poverty in the UK鈥.
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Released yesterday, the report proposes that the existing 15...Read more

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