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BBC News | Education | Sean Coughlan | 11 June 2015 The primary school population in England has continued to rise sharply, with 94,000 extra pupils this year, reaching the highest levels since the 1970s. The 2.1%...

The Guardian | Richard Adams, education editor | 9 June 2015 The majority of primary schools across England have opted to assess children as young as four using a method that focuses on observation as opposed to testing....

BBC News | Technology | 5 June 2015 The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has asked the Advertising Standards Authority to investigate three online games aimed at children. The CMA is concerned that the games, which...

huffingtonpost.com | Matthew Melmed | 3 June 2015  A new report recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows a downward trajectory in severe mental health issues for children between the...

The Guardian | Richard Adams Education editor & Frances Perraudin | 3 June 2015 The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has vowed to “sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes” obstructing...

The Irish Times | Sheila Wayman | 2 June 2015 ‘Grey-area’ children, who are not physically developed, may underperform in the classroom It’s endearing the way newborn babies fling their arms out when...

The Daily Mail | Rachel Ellis | 1 June 2015 We tend to think of chubby babies as cute — those rolls of fat only making them even more cuddly. However, it seems that view may be dangerously outdated....

BBC News | Education & Family | 1 June 2015 As concerns are raised about how the government will fulfil its pledge to boost free childcare for working families to 30 hours a week, the BBC News website asks key...

BBC News | Education | Judith Burns | 1 June 2015 Trials of a scheme top double free childcare for working parents in England are to be brought forward a year to September 2016. Parents in some areas will be entitled to the...

28th May 2015 | Highlights in this issue Policy: *Short changed: the true cost of cuts to children’s benefits Practice: *Early years agenda: an evidence-based manifesto for change The Alliance has published its Early Years...

BBC News | Health | 29 May 2015 Many supposedly “healthy” fruit snacks aimed at children contain more sugar than sweets, says a campaign group. Action on Sugar looked at 94 products on UK sale, such as coated dried...

BBC News | Politics | May 27 2015  Access to free childcare for three-and-four-year-olds in England is to double to 30 hours a week under measures announced in the Queen’s Speech. If passed, the childcare bill will...