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.
Professor Dame Sally Davies, the government鈥檚 chief medical officer, has written a letter to nurseries, urging them to raise awareness of the childhood flu immunisation programme, Nursery World reports.
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.
The Pre-school Learning 麻花影视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.
At Labour鈥檚 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.
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.
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.