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Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

Many in the early years sector feel ignored, at risk, and treated as an afterthought by the government.

Almost no one wants the economy to return to how it was pre-pandemic. What’s Keir Starmer’s vision?

Remote learning is beset with problems. Ministers need to look at other options, argues Omar Salem.

The Isolation Assurance Service – the Government’s system for ensuring quarantine compliance – didn’t contact over 1.9 million of the two million passengers spot checked by Border Force.

Britain’s hard right Home Sec Priti Patel is, strangely, refusing to close the borders when it actually might be necessary…

Tulip Siddiq, Shadow Early Years Minister, writes to the Government about the decision to keep early years settings open during England’s lockdown.

The Tories are trying to shut workers out of Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals, writes Unite’s Tony Burke.

Organisers want clarity from the government – and soon.

Support services are stretched to the limit – and too many people are likely to fall through the cracks, writes Natalie Bennett.