The Government should review the two-to two-and-a-half year health and development check to increase numbers of children finishing Reception with a good level of development (GLD), a think tank says.

New partnerships between primary schools and early years settings will be given grants of up to £50,000 to improve reception readiness.

The Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Monday) publishing a new report, ‘Starting Well: Lessons from local areas on how to ensure all children are school ready’. 

New project launched to explore how better data-sharing can help ensure kids are school ready, which will see local authorities and healthcare professionals gauging parents’ views and experiences of accessing early learning support.

A local authority has launched new potty training guidance aimed at families with babies as young as six months old in a bid to reduce numbers of children starting school in nappies.