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The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.
The return of the ratios debate highlights how the early years sector deserves a fresh approach to solving its ongoing challenges, says our columnist Sara Mackenzie
Early years settings in England are missing out on more than £55m in Government funding for childcare places, according to a Freedom of Information investigation by the National Day Nurseries...
We have summarised the latest Department for Education guidance for settings below, as nurseries, childminders and schools prepare to open for more children from 1 June.
The out-of-school sector has hit out at children's secretary Ed Balls after he detailed plans to cut 100m from after-school club funding, despite a Government target that all primary schools should...
Creative Education, which trades under the brand name Primary Steps, revealed last week that it had bought the Head Start Nursery Group in a deal worth more than 1.5m. Meanwhile, Nord Anglia, the UK...
The phrase 'Nappy Curriculum' has been all over the national press this week like a rash in that sensitive area!
Two new education qualifications for teaching assistants have been tipped to have as big an impact on raising professional standards as the NNEB did on its introduction more than 50 years ago. The...
Early years staff are still not valued accordingly, says Julian Grenier.
Children from low-income backgrounds who performed well in tests at age two are, by the age of six or seven, overtaken by previously less-able children from better-off families. This trend was...