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All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
Nursery children 'lack communication skills'
Thursday 10. of July 2008By: The Independent
This article is from March 2007
Children are arriving for full-time primary school lessons weak in language, literacy and communication because teachers are spending too little time on the three Rs in the early years of their...
Rising number of primary pupils unable to speak in sentences
Tuesday 08. of July 2008By: The Guardian
The number of children who arrive at primary school unable to speak in full sentences is rising, according to a government review which today reveals that 7% of children now have a serious communication problem.
LAYING FOUNDATIONS FOR YOUNG LEARNING
Saturday 14. of June 2008By: South Wales Evening Post
Plans for a "radical" new curriculum for three to seven-year-olds have been clouded in controversy. Post reporter SHAUN GREANEY reports on what the plans will mean for our younger children.
No to curriculum for the under-5s
Tuesday 27. of May 2008By: The Times
Sir, Schools should be encouraged to protest over the imposition of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (report, May 26)
Schools in revolt over under-5s curriculum
Monday 26. of May 2008By: The Times
A powerful coalition of England’s leading independent schools is demanding that the Government scale back its new national curriculum for the under-fives, claiming that it violates parents’ human rights by denying them the...
Pre-school literacy targets ‘are too ambitious and should be dropped’
Thursday 22. of May 2008By: The Times
An influential panel of experts set up to advise on government policy for the under-5s is demanding radical changes to literacy targets for preschool children, which they describe as “overly ambitious for most children”.
Early learning 'goals' condemned
Wednesday 21. of May 2008By: The Press Association
The new national curriculum for babies and toddlers will turn nurseries into formal schools where young children are drilled to learn to read and write, MPs have been warned.
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