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Do ‘kindy bootcamps’ get children ready for school?
Parents are sending their children to private pre-school programs as a way to ensure they are ready to start school. But are these effective?
Many children aren’t physically ready to start school
If children aren't sufficiently coordinated, it could affect their ability to learn.
Childhood obesity plan forgets about babies and toddlers
To combat childhood obesity, we need to start from day one.
Childcare market is failing to provide parents with choice and quality
England may end up with one of the most complex and unfair systems in Europe.
Two children in every class start school with an unexplained language disorder
And many of them are not getting the help they need.
Free university tuition will help SNP defend a very mixed record on education
A few notable successes, but could do better.
Why make-believe play is an important part of childhood development
Research has found a relationship between pretend play and a child's developing creativity, understanding of others and social competence with peers.
The world’s longest studied birth cohort turns 70 – here’s what they’ve told us
The Medical Research Council's National Survey of Health and Development turns 70 this month, and is more ambitious than ever.
State benefits negatively affect personality – here’s how
The welfare state increases the number of children born at risk of developing personality profiles that make them less likely to get a job.
Do babies feel tickles in a different way to adults?
The world outside the womb is full of new sensations for a newborn. New research is explaining how they navigate it.
Focusing free childcare on ‘working parents’ is short-sighted
Plans to double free childcare will only be available for 'working parents'.
Don’t just send all two-year-olds off to school – involve their families too
We shouldn't just be blaming the middle classes for snapping up all the free childcare spots.
Too much too soon? What should we be teaching four-year-olds
New research shows that children who start school young are struggling to keep up with curriculum targets.
Increasing free childcare won’t be as easy as A, B, C
Why the government's policy could end up harming children's chances.
Promising more free nursery care is one thing, delivering it is quite another
Politicians promising to expand free childcare is no bad thing, but it is difficult to deliver in practice
Manifesto Check: Greens put ideology over evidence on education
Our experts find that the Green Party's generous pledges on education will cost them.
Manifesto Check: no evidence that Labour early years policy will close education gap
Labour’s 2015 manifesto aims to improve life for children and it suggests that one effective means of achieving that aim is to invest in early years’ provision. The claim is that a child’s language development…
Watching TV can actually be good for toddlers
Learning from TV programmes is rooted in repetition and interaction.
The number of Sure Start centres is irrelevant – it’s quality that matters
It is predictable that the Labour Party’s election pledge to expand Sure Start has turned into a row over how many children’s centres have actually closed since the coalition government took over in 2010…
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