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Kids in the UK grow up with some of the highest levels of educational inequality.
By the time children are five, they should show preference for a particular hand and be able to work with others.
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Children aged three to five don't need to do formal academic assignments in early childhood education to hit their milestones.
Tony Blair visiting a children’s centre in Southampton in 2003.
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Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
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Childhood adversity doesn't just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body's fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
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Bedtime stories can be comforting, chilling and mysterious, but new research highlights how emotions change depending on how children are doing it.
‘Kindy bootcamps’ tend to be run by untrained teachers.
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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?
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If children aren't sufficiently coordinated, it could affect their ability to learn.
Childhood obesity can be tackled from birth – so why aren’t we doing anything about it?
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To combat childhood obesity, we need to start from day one.
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England may end up with one of the most complex and unfair systems in Europe.
Who’s ready?
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And many of them are not getting the help they need.
All smiles at Craigentinny Primary School … but not everywhere else.
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A few notable successes, but could do better.
Trying on new roles.
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Research has found a relationship between pretend play and a child's developing creativity, understanding of others and social competence with peers.
Birth cohort studies are an invaluable resource for researchers.
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The Medical Research Council's National Survey of Health and Development turns 70 this month, and is more ambitious than ever.
What kind of personalities does the welfare state create?
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The welfare state increases the number of children born at risk of developing personality profiles that make them less likely to get a job.
Ticklish?
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The world outside the womb is full of new sensations for a newborn. New research is explaining how they navigate it.
Not the right building blocks for a childcare policy.
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Plans to double free childcare will only be available for 'working parents'.
Everbody should get a go.
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We shouldn't just be blaming the middle classes for snapping up all the free childcare spots.
Maybe not so smiley on the second day of school.
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New research shows that children who start school young are struggling to keep up with curriculum targets.
Childcare and education: the building blocks for equality.
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Why the government's policy could end up harming children's chances.
Good deeds don’t always work out that way.
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Politicians promising to expand free childcare is no bad thing, but it is difficult to deliver in practice