Archive: Pre School

Comment: We are encouraging a starvation diet of parenting

Chris McGovern is the chairman of the Campaign for Real Education and a former headmaster.

The CentreForum report setting out five ways parenting can be improved is a start, but the recommended 45 minutes of attention for children a day is akin to starving them of nurture.

Tories lament 'Frank Gallagher' parenting

Five-a-day parenting solution urged

Comment: Why we need an early intervention society

Clegg promises free nursery care

Nick Clegg has endured a difficult week for his party

Nick Clegg has announced plans for free nursery education for two-year olds as part of his 'pupil premium' policy.

Review to reassess need for toddler targets

Nick Clegg visits a playgroup during the 2010 election campaign

A review expected to roll back New Labour's educational targets for children under five has been launched.

Five-year-olds to be given sex education

Sex education will be given to children as young as five in some schools in a bid to lower the teenage pregnancy rate.

Children to learn maths through 'cooking and playing'

Children should learn maths through cooking the report suggests

A new government initiative to help children learn maths through cooking and playing has been announced today by the schools secretary Ed Balls.

Tories lament 'Frank Gallagher' parenting

Parenting standards in decline, Tories say

Poor standards of parenting are the norm rather than the exception in Britain, a Conservative frontbencher will say today.

Rising childcare costs prompt govt plea

Nursery provision should be expanded, the Daycare Trust says

Recent increases in government spending on childcare do not got far enough, Britain's leading childcare charity has warned.

Social mobility as bad as 1970s

Hughes insists reforms will show progress

Social mobility in the UK has not improved since the 1970s, despite ten years of a Labour government, a report by the Sutton Trust finds today.

Ministers defend early years learning

DCFS insists scheme is "play-based" learning

Ministers have been urged to rethink plans to make all toddlers follow a so-called national curriculum from next autumn.

Tories for central reading tests

The Conservatives are calling for external reading tests for seven-year-olds

Seven-year-olds would sit a national reading test under the Conservatives' new proposals to boost literacy.

Govt 'must do more' to raise basic skills

The level of basic skills among seven-year-olds has not noticeably improved in the past year, but the government insists high standards have been maintained.

Early-years education 'having little effect'

'Little improvement' in young children's skills

NAO: More must be done for Sure Start to work

Sure Start centres must do more for the most excluded groups in society, the NAO reports

More needs to be done to reach and support children from the most excluded groups in society under the Sure Start scheme, the National Audit Office (NAO) finds.

Schools given extra £240m for healthy lunches

Government pledges extra money to improve school lunches

Schools will get an additional £240 million to help them cook with healthy ingredients as part of a drive to cut childhood obesity, the education secretary has announced.

Minister embraces reading overhaul

A government-commissioned report today recommends an overhaul in the way children are taught to read in English schools.

Sure Start 'not helping the most in need'

The Conservatives have accused the government of burying bad news by releasing a critical evaluation of the Sure Start programme the same day as a landmark pensions report.

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