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With new guidelines recently issued to local authorities on the Early Years Single Funding Formula for the free entitlement, Ruth Thomson outlines the implications.
Local authorities in Scotland have been reminded that they are now under a duty to make a free part-time pre-school education place available for all three- and four-year-olds. Minister for education...
Local authorities are relying more and more on early years consultants to deliver EYFS outcomes, as Karen Faux hears.
Children in nurseries and schools across the London borough of Hackney are set to learn about Black British history, thanks to a ground-breaking new curriculum developed by Hackney teachers and...
New research shows that poor pay, an increasing workload and low status are combining to drive early years workers out of the sector, says Natalie Perera
Chains that allow each setting to plan its own curriculum can still guarantee a coherent approach, as Judith Barrett discovers Next spring, when the Government reissues its guidance to early years...
Early years funding rates have failed to keep pace with inflation in three-quarters of local authorities in England over the past five years, according to analysis by the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
More than a quarter of local authorities’ early years funding rates have seen real-terms cuts over the past five years, Pre-school Learning Alliance research reveals.
18 more local authorities to pilot payment-by-resultsParents and community groups given right to run their own centres
The DfES is consulting on draft regulations on how to set targets that local authorities will need to meet under the Childcare Act. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said, 'It is essential that we...