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BBC News | Education & Family | Hannah Richardson | 19 March 2015 Parents of summer-born babies should get more power to overturn decisions to place their children in class before compulsory school age, say MPs....

BBC News | Education and Family | Hannah Richardson | 19 March 2015 Early years education experts and teachers are calling for plans for new baseline tests for four-year-olds in England’s schools to be scrapped. In an...

BBC News | Education and Family | Judith Burns | Education reporter | 16 March 2015 Children who lead inactive lives are likely to grow up to become middle-aged couch potatoes, a study suggests. Researchers compared...

The Guardian | Zoe Wlliams | Early years education | Sunday 15 March   “Early years” is the most freighted term in politics, deployed to convey so much. For me, the phrase conjures an image of...

Policy concentration on the early years is of vital importance for the wellbeing of children now and for their future health outcomes and life chances.

The Guardian | Tech | Samuel Gibbs | Friday 13 March 2015 Campaigners call for ban on Mattel doll that uses voice-recognition technology to respond to children’s questions – and send recordings to third...

The Guardian | Sarah Boseley Health editor | Saturday 14 March 2015 Obesity charities say Innovate UK should not be paying multinationals to invent an energy-efficient chocolate machine or a new way to dry potatoes...

BBC News | Technology | Jane Wakefield | 12 March 2015 In schools up and down the country, children are making apps, building robots and programming Raspberry Pi computers as if their lives depended on it. And it does not...

Kidsscreen | iKids | 2015 | Daniela Fisher The new 2015 CHILDWISE Monitor Report reflects a changing landscape in kids’ digital media consumption. For starters, more kids now own a tablet than a laptop, and...

The Independent | RICHARD GARNER | EDUCATION EDITOR | Sunday 15 March 2015   Academic spells out what DfE assessments will entail, while teachers react angrily to prospect of results being used by Ofsted to...

Nursery World | News | Catherine Gaunt | Early years education | 10 March 2015  New EYFS guidance designed specifically for parents has been launched by children’s minister Sam Gyimah.  ‘What to...