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Disadvantaged children will miss out on childcare expansion plans, unless support is targeted – report

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MPs say the Government's catch-up scheme is not reaching the children who need it most PHOTO Adobe Stock
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National tutoring catch-up scheme failing disadvantaged pupils, say MPs

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The Nuffield Early Language Intervention scheme is a catch-up scheme for Reception class children PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Two-thirds of primary schools sign up to early language scheme

Closing the Gap
Many children starting school last September lacked basic language skills, the survey found PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Huge numbers of children starting school developmentally delayed - study

Closing the Gap
Claudine Bower-Crane of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research: 'Given the importance of ECEC (early childhood education and care), it is alarming that it has not been recognised in the Levelling Up White Paper'
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Early years forgotten again

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Charity Teach First is calling on the Government to increase the early years pupil premium to the same rate received by schools PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Calls for early years pupil premium to match primary schools' rate

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Hartlepool is one of the 55 'cold spots' identified as 'Education Investment Areas' in the Government's new White Paper, PHOTO Adobe Stock
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'No real support' for early years in Government's levelling up white paper

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The Social Mobility Commission proposes a £14bn package of support to lift millions out of poverty PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Government urged to put disadvantaged children at ‘centre stage’ of Covid-19 recovery plan

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The NFER research finds the gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged KS1 pupils has grown since the last lockdown PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Disadvantaged children fall further behind due to Covid

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Labour says the Government's education recovery plan is 'totally insufficient' PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Labour urges Conservative MPs to vote for its education catch-up plans

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Sir Kevan Collins has resigned as the Government's catch-up tsar in protest at the lack of funding for education recovery
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School catch-up tsar resigns in funding row

Coronavirus
Artisans has noticed developmental delays (see Case study)
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Sector seeks 'catch-up' cash to alleviate Covid's impact

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Some early years settings have reported children's development has regressed, for example, needing help to put their shoes on
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Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

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The Queen re-opened Parliament today (11 May2021) PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Queen's speech 2021: children's early years identified as a priority

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Children's laureate Cressida Cowell PHOTO David Bebber
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Children's laureate calls on PM to invest in school libraries

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Anne Longfield: 'Too often the people in charge of the systems children need simply don’t see them and try to understand their world'
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Children's commissioner Anne Longfield takes ministers to task in final speech

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