The London School of Economics and the University of Oxford have today released a report claiming that children that spend more time in early years provision have better social and everyday skills.
A study from Ofcom has found that under-fives are spending more than four hours a day in front of a screen, and that, overall, children are spending more time online than watching television.
Neil Leitch, chief executive at the Pre-school Learning Alliance, has criticised today’s Good Morning Britain report titled, ‘Are nurseries safe?’
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The report investigated the overall safety of early years settings...Read more
The latest early years dataset from аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± has shown an increase in the proportion of providers achieving ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ ratings from 86% to 91%, as at 31 August this year.
The Alliance has called on the Department for Education to publish externally-commissioned research from Deloitte – used in the ‘Review of childcare costs: the analytical report’ in November 2015 – following a ruling from the Information...Read more