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Struggling parents who have access to short-break foster care schemes are more likely to keep their children out of full-time care, research for the Department of Health has found - but only 12 local...
The Department for Education (DfE) is toughening its stance on local authority approaches to funding childminders for free early education places.
A Sussex nursery owner has launched a free online platform to help nurseries across the UK become more sustainable.
Private and voluntary sector providers are often quoted as calling for a 'level playing field' with state-funded childcare. This week there's good news and bad news - some bits of the field appear to...
I would like to draw readers' attention to the plight of the many nursery nurses who are not employed by their local authority and therefore are ineligible to take part in the industrial action...
While take-up of school meals has nearly doubled under the universal infant free school meal (UIFSM) policy, its introduction has affected schools’ pupil premium funding.
The First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan, has personally intervened in a row over how some Welsh local authorities are providing the free education entitlement for three- and four-year-olds.
The local government School Support Staff Committee, attended by school headteachers and representatives from local authorities and unions representing support staff, met for the first time last week....
Each policy and procedure serves a different purpose. So it is important to be clear about your meaning and ensure all essential information is included, says Laura Henry.