Interesting links, articles, news and blog posts sent out to members on 15/07/24.
Call For Evidence: Reimagining our ambitions for children’s play – Centre for Young Lives
July 2024. The Play Commission is gathering evidence and expertise to inform the policy recommendations that they make in their final report. They are calling for organisations and individuals with professional expertise or lived experience to share their knowledge and views by submitting evidence to their commission. The call for evidence opens from June 11th and closes on 30th September 2024:
Link: https://www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/play-commission/call-for-evidence
Article: One in three adults willing to pay £5 GP fee to fund early childhood services – Nursery World
12 July 2024, Nicole Weinstein. Nearly a third of adults would be willing to pay £5 to see their GP if the additional revenue was directed towards early years health and development programs for under-fives, reveals survey:
Opinion: Police strip searching of children is the real child protection scandal – Manifesto Club
12 July 2024. The Manifesto Club has long criticised ‘no touch’ policies for children. Some primary schools ban teachers from putting an arm around a child to comfort them, or ban putting on sunscreen:
Link: https://manifestoclub.info/police-strip-searching-of-children-is-the-real-child-protection-scandal/
Article: Hundreds of thousands of families impacted by two-child benefits cap – Nursery World
11 July 2024. More than 400,000 families are being ‘denied vital support’ because of the two-child benefits cap, reveal official statistics:
Article: Stephen Morgan MP looks set to take on early years role at DfE – Nursery World
10 July 2024, Catherine Gaunt. Stephen Morgan and Janet Daby are the latest appointments at the Department for Education, under new Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson:
Transparency data: Regulatory activity in all types of children’s homes – Ofsted
9 July 2024. This commentary focuses on regulatory activity in all types of children’s homes during the 2023 to 24 inspection year:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-activity-in-all-types-of-childrens-homes
Article: Children’s daily sugar consumption of soft drinks halved just a year after tax, study finds – Guardian Online
9 July 2024, Tobi Thomas. Experts say success with soft drinks shows expansion of tax to cover other foods and drinks is a ‘no brainer’:
Article: New Education secretary resumes work to grow the early years workforce – Nursery World
8 July 2024, Katy Morton. The new education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has resumed and expanded the existing Department for Education recruitment campaigns, including the one for the early years workforce:
Article: Education Secretary Phillipson begins push to recruit 6,500 new teachers – BBC News Online
8 July 2024, Nathan Standley. Bridget Phillipson has said no issues have “quick and easy solutions”, in a letter to those working at all levels of education:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clky2zllpw2o
Article: General Election 2024: How Labour’s win could impact the children and young people’s sector – Children & Young People Now
5 July 2024, Amrit Virdi. The children and young people’s sector has welcomed Labour’s landslide win in the general election, and has urged Keir Starmer’s party to deliver on key manifesto pledges to boost youth services and support for mental health:
Article: “The Forgotten Majority”: Leading Charities Call for Action to Tackle Long-Term Conditions – Politics Home
27 June 2024, Abbvie. Long-term conditions (LTCs) impact millions across the nation and are a major challenge for the NHS and the economy. Now, as part of “The Forgotten Majority” campaign, key UK health and care charities have come together with pharmaceutical company AbbVie, to urge the incoming government to find new ways to tackle long-term conditions: