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Latest EYFS Profile statistics show results continuing to improve

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The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results for 2016 have shown that 69.3% of children are now achieving a ‘good level of development’; a 3% increase on last year’s 66.3%
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Released today, the results also showed...Read more

EYFS Profile to remain in place for 2017/18

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The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile is to remain in place for 2017/18, education secretary Justine Greening revealed today in a statement to parliament.
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Neil Leitch, chief executive at the Pre-school Learning...Read more

EY professionals earn less than half wage of educational professionals

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New research from the Pre-school Learning Alliance and Nursery World has discovered that the average hourly wage for early years professionals is less than half the median hourly wage of educational professionals.
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Tulip Siddiq appointed shadow early years minister

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Tulip Siddiq as shadow minister for the early years as part of his latest cabinet reshuffle.
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Tulip is MP for Hampstead and Kilburn and has previously worked as a local...Read more

Education secretary reveals social mobility ‘opportunity areas’

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At the Conservative Party Conference earlier this week, Education secretary Justine Greening announced six areas across England as the most challenged in terms of social mobility.
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Blackpool, Derby, Norwich, Oldham,...Read more

Letter to nurseries over flu protection for under fives

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Professor Dame Sally Davies, the government’s chief medical officer, has written a letter to nurseries, urging them to raise awareness of the childhood flu immunisation programme, Nursery World reports.
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Surge in tablet use among toddlers

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A quarter of pre-school age children in Britain have their own touch-screen devices, compared to a mere 4% of children in 2012, market research company Childwise has claimed.
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In its latest report, Childwise also...Read more

Alliance launches Fair Future Funding campaign

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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has today launched its early years funding campaign, .
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The campaign is calling on the government to...Read more

Childcare costs to soar if DfE freezes early years funding

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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has today warned that if the government goes ahead with plans to freeze early years funding rates until 2019/20, childcare costs are likely to be on the increase.
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Labour to launch early years taskforce

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At Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is to lay out plans for an early years taskforce designed to transform early years provision.
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Angela will highlight that every...Read more

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