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The Schools minister David Laws has announced a raft of new measures to help schools further narrow the unacceptable gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for...
A cross-party group of peers is calling for fairer funding for PVI settings and for spending to be targeted at disadvantaged children who benefit the most.
The Family and Childcare Trust is calling on the Government to invest the £535 million savings from delayed Tax-Free Childcare as capital funding, so that local authorities and providers can offer...
One in seven local authorities in England has 'inadequate' child protection arrangements, according to a new report by Ofsted.
One of Scotland’s largest councils has admitted that fulfilling the Scottish Government’s 1,140 hour childcare offer for three- and four-year-olds will pose a ‘significant challenge’.
The emergence of the Conservative Party's plan to give state funding to Montessori and Steiner schools if it wins the next election is surprising, to say the least (see News, page 3).
A national framework for implementing a comprehensive programme of change to ensure the integration of children's services and multi-agency working will be unveiled by the Government when the Children...
The Pre-School Learning Alliance has released a post-election manifesto in which it asks to work with government on the promised review of free entitlement funding.
Despite the Government’s claim funding would significantly increase from September, childcare providers are receiving an average of just 32p extra per hour to deliver the three and four-year-old...