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Councils will receive a new minimum rate of £4.30 an hour in the new early years funding formula, the early years minister has confirmed.
There has been a muted response from the early years and childcare sector this week to the news that 100m in capital funding is to boost expansion of places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
We need a new debate about early education, says Julian Grenier.
The first private nursery chains are taking steps into the new Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme for disadvantaged areas. Anne Wiltsher reports The 108-place Jigsaw nursery in Portsmouth, one of the...
The DfE has announced national average hourly funding rates of £11.22 for under-twos, £8.28 for two-year-olds and £5.88 for three and four-year-olds from April when the first phase of the extended...
Should state subsidies for nursery places go to corporate providers?, asks Helen Penn
The call by Alan Bentley, chairman of nursery group Childcare Corporation, for the private nursery sector to form a new trade association to represent its interests may seem to have come out of the...
The Welsh Government deserves plaudits for its bravery in implementing the play-based Foundation Phase for threeto seven-year-olds - radical indeed compared to the way that things are progressing...
In light of claims that the DfE is monitoring the social media activity of some early years experts, early years consultant Helen Moylett has urged people not to be silenced as 'healthy debate forms...
The Government should reverse plans to integrate the childcare element of tax credits into the Universal Credit and instead introduce a single, integrated funding system to support parents with...