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Up to 1.1bn of Government funding for the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds is not being passed on to nurseries by local authorities, says a new report.
Early Education and the NAHT have today written to 100 local authorities in England urging them to put on hold plans to close maintained nurseries schools in their areas.
Public services union Unison has blamed the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities for prolonging its six-month-long dispute over nursery nurses' pay by refusing to negotiate nationally. The...
Early years providers can compare the funding they receive with their neighbours in other local authorities in an updated version of the early years online funding tool.
Two-thirds of local authorities are failing to provide enough childcare for parents, according to new research.
Local authorities must do more to include nursery schools in a more formal and strategic way to improve the quality of nursery education locally, or risk losing their valuable expertise through...
Funding for two-year-old places is lower in 57 council areas than it was last September, according to an analysis of funding rates by the National Day Nurseries Association, which also warns that...
The EYFS should be axed and funding for Sure Start should be devolved to local authorities according to a report by a right-leaning think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies.
Family fortunes: the new politics of childhood Edited by Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala and Meg Munn
Using extracts from his new book on the subject, Damien Fitzgerald argues that the Government’s approach to early years policy has substantially reduced the essential focus on quality