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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...
More than half of local authorities in England anticipate permanent closure of childcare providers when Covid funding ends in January, a new report by Coram Family and Childcare has revealed.
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.
Local authorities and Primary Care Trusts have been invited to bid for a 20m, two-year pilot scheme for free school meals, unveiled by children's secretary Ed Balls and health secretary Alan Johnson.
The true number of children in the UK who have type 2 diabetes may be going unnoticed, claims a report in this week's BMJ. It said that cases of children with type 2 diabetes had been linked to the...
The Playhouse Set is suitable for babies from the age of 12 months. It features a double-sided soft playhouse with soft boy, girl and dog figures. The figures, which canbe stored in the mesh pockets...
A new guide calling for local authorities to ensure that early years communication is a designated responsibility within every local authority has been launched by the National Literacy Trust's early...
Proposed changes to early years funding in England are likely to hit local authorities already struggling with declining childcare places – largely in northern England –suggests new research.
It's great to communicate... Miranda Walker shows you how to edit a club magazine and produce your own news programme in the first of a two-part feature on exploring the media. Making a magazine is a...
Local authorities have raised concerns that many of the childminders coming forward to offer funded places for two, three and four year olds are not sufficiently well-qualified to provide high quality...