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Families Going Forward and top up training
6 December 2010
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Supporting Britain's Parents - Parenting UK Conference 13 December 2010
18 October 2010
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Great first year for REAL - Raising Early Achievement in Literacy
13 September 2010
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Young Children's Voices Network event 15 June 2010
29 April 2010
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*Special Feature* Focus on Accreditation
30 March 2010
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Let's listen launch event 22 April 2010
4 March 2010
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PEAL evaluation report now available to download
12 November 2009
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ECU offers FREE taster sessions to local authorities
7 November 2009
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PEAL for Parents posters now available to buy
1 September 2009
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PEAL Book is reviewed in Children and Young People Now
29 May 2009
Read the review here

New Handbook to Support the Revised City and Guilds Award for Candidates Registering After April 2009
29 May 2009
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Michael Rosen speaks at PEAL book launch
13 March 2009
Read more about the book launch here
Press release

New Early Learning Partnerships evaluation leaflet available to download
6 January 2009
Find out more about the leaflet here

New PEAL Publication is now available to buy
6 January 2009
Find out more about the book here

PEAL Celebrates Success of City and Guilds Candidates
7 November
Successful Candidates attend a celebration and evaluation event at the Dali Universe in September 2008

Early Learning Partnerships Project: Beverley Hughes Speech
25 June 2008
Beverley Hughes Highlights PEAL in her address at the ELPP conference

Attend ECU's biennial conference
19 & 20 June 2008

The Early Childhood Unit holds its bienniel meeting in June 2008

Knowledge sharing between parents and workers
5 June 2008

Further information about the conference on observing, supporting and extending children's interests

Supporting parents to engage them in their children's early learning
21 May 2008
Why programmes supporting parental engagement in children's learning and development should be prioritised - DCSF briefing paper

4th annual conference: Developing the childcare workforce is coming up
7 March 2008
Find out more about this event

Attend the extended schools conference
5 March 2008

Book now for your chance to question Beverley Hughes MP

New NCH resource for practitioners
19 February 2008
Download Practitioner Resource for Parents as Partners in Early Learning

PEAL funds practice development
15 February 2008
Settings get help implementing PEAL in this exciting phase of the project

Attend the What about children? conference in March
15 February 2008

Getting the balance right: supporting parents and their under 3's

Safeguarding Children conference coming up
15 February 2008

To be chaired by the NSPCC's Director of Services for Children and Young People

Attend EYFS conference re-run
7 February 2008

Nursery World holds its popular conference again in London

Babyfather gains good practice recognition from DCSF
14 January 2008
DCSF report holds SCORG up as an example of good practice

Fitting the quality jigsaw together
9 January 2008
Attend the National Quality Improvement Network's conference

Working for children: ECF's national conference
9 January 2008
New publication launched at this year's Early Childhood Forum conference

Attend ECU's biennial conference
21 December 2007
The Early Childhood Unit holds its bienniel meeting in June 2008

Free language guide from DCSF
3 December 2007
Essential reading for those working with children who are learning English as an additional language

Children's Centres Conference coming up
3 December 2007
Attend Capita's fifth national conference in January

Daycare Trusts complete research
9 November 2007
Find out about the first year of the research project, Listening to Parents

Pen Green Conference in February 2008
9 November 2007
Attend the conference at Pen Green

Nursery conference on EYFS
9 November 2007
Book your place on the Early Years Foundation conference now to save money

Pen Green conference coming up
9 November 2007
Attend the Pen Green conference on 17 November

Supporting Teenage Parents
27 September 2007
Capita to hold a conference on how to support teenage parents

Turning Lives Around
27 September 2007
Family and Parenting Institute to hold conference on working with vulnerable families

The Ofsted Report 2007
30 August 2007
Read about the Ofsted report on the state of early years childcare in England

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