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Outdoor provision for the early years is set to grow and flourish thanks to funding distributed through local authorities. Annie Davy reports.
Happy Days Nurseries is opening its 21st nursery in Bristol next month, with work underway on a new site to open in Salisbury in August.
The expanded entitlements could widen the inequality gap, finds Ivana La Valle, visiting scholar at the University of East London
Childcare providers and other stakeholders are being urged by the Government to respond to an online survey in order to help shape the way tax-free childcare will be delivered.
The DfE is to consult with the sector this summer on how funding for the 15 and 30 hours childcare will be distributed, including the expanded entitlement for children from the age of nine months.
The Government has written to all local authorities confirming the funding they will receive to deliver frontline services, including details of the new Early Intervention Grant. I'd like to outline...
Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, was appointed as Labour's new shadow minister for childcare and early years in October. Katy Morton met her to discuss her party's policies.
A new guide outlining changes to early years funding and delivery has been published by the Pre-School Learning Alliance.
Early years settings will receive just a 6p an hour increase per child for three-and four-year-olds next term, as the Department for Education reverts to pre-Covid funding rates.
Cuts in funding for childcare students have prompted one provider to focus on management training instead, suggesting that Government policy is having the opposite effect of its stated aim of raising...