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The children’s minister has vowed to look again at the percentage of early years funding that local authorities are allowed to keep back from providers in the Early Years Funding Formula.
Four local authorities have been designated beacons of best practice for their groundbreaking work within the early years and childcare sector. The councils - Leeds, Somerset, and the London boroughs...
Over 100 sector experts and representative bodies have signed an open letter to Ofsted identifying ‘deficiencies’ within the inspectorate’s first part of its early years research curriculum review.
To prepare for the roll-out of funded two-year-old places to 20 per cent of two-year-olds from September 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) funded ten trial areas from September 2012 to March...
Welsh-medium early years organisation Mudiad Meithrin has announced it has been successful in its bid to fund a PhD jointly with Swansea University and Cardiff Metropolitan University on a topic...
Re ‘Early years staff told to prioritise their mental health as you cannot “pour from an empty cup”’ (online, 21 June)
Early years professionals can sign up for a conference at the University of Wolverhampton on 29 June.
The former president of Early Education has been awarded the CBE for services to early years education in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Jean Ensing, president of Early Education from October 1997 to...
Nine nurseries have been ‘named and shamed’ on the latest minimum wage offenders list. How did they get there, and how easy was it to fall foul of the rules? Ruth Stokes reports