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Fourteen more local authorities are set to extend the free early education entitlement for three- and four-year-olds to 15 hours a week from next September.
The DCSF has announced that 56 local authorities have been approved to implement the Early Years Single Funding Formula from April by becoming second-wave pathfinders.
Local authorities are applying varying interpretations of the Code of Practice - the rules covering the 15-hour free entitlement - in different areas, according to reports from Montessori settings.
A new report by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) estimates the costs to the economy and Government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.
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...
More local authorities have confirmed details of the funding for the 30-hour childcare pilots, with the early education entitlement and the extra childcare paid at different rates.
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.
Four local authorities have been cited as beacons of good practice for their integrated children's services. Essex, Knowsley, West Sussex, and Telford and Wrekin received the Beacon Status award from...
Some providers fear that the existing levels of funding they receive through local authorities for the two-year-old entitlement will reduce when the programme expands beyond 2014.
Councils will be able to bid for capital grants to drive the Government’s expansion of the 30 hours entitlement.