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The Department for Education has announced an extension of supplementary funding for nursery schools, along with a boost to childcare funding rates of up to 8p per hour, per child.
Staff-to-child ratios, and more importantly, staff qualifications and in-service training can predict the quality of pre-school childcare settings, a new study has found.
Early years organisations have raised concerns that the funding rate for early education two-year-old places will not rise next year.
A review of the Code of Practice will take place in the autumn alongside a consultation on introducing eligibility criteria that early education providers will need to meet in order to receive funding...
A Critical Commentary on Reforming the Early Years Foundation Stage (the EYFS): Government Response to Consultation (publ. 20 Dec 2011)
The group begun in Kent to campaign against the new code of practice for nursery education funding has been joined by another branch set up by a nursery owner in Oxfordshire. Sally Fitchett, who owns...
An integrated package of care, health and education support is to be targeted at 15,000 of the most vulnerable young children in the spending review plans of the Scottish Executive. The Executive...
I think we can all sympathise with Brenda, whose exasperated reaction to being told that Theresa May had called an election went viral.
Extended schools must develop 'a robust business and income generation programme' to provide well-planned and viable services, 4Children chief executive Anne Longfield has said. Ms Longfield told a...
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.