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A new guide calling for local authorities to ensure that early years communication is a designated responsibility within every local authority has been launched by the National Literacy Trust's early...
Local authorities and Primary Care Trusts have been invited to bid for a 20m, two-year pilot scheme for free school meals, unveiled by children's secretary Ed Balls and health secretary Alan Johnson.
The DCSF has named 56 local authorities that have been approved to implement the Early Years Single Funding Formula from April by becoming second-wave pathfinders (see box).
Local authorities have raised concerns that many of the childminders coming forward to offer funded places for two, three and four year olds are not sufficiently well-qualified to provide high quality...
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Early Education and the NAHT have today written to 100 local authorities in England urging them to put on hold plans to close maintained nurseries schools in their areas.
The DfES is consulting on draft regulations on how to set targets that local authorities will need to meet under the Childcare Act. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said, 'It is essential that we...
What does your business name say to your customers? Paul Richards offers advice on branding in the nursery sector.
Local authorities must do more to include nursery schools in a more formal and strategic way to improve the quality of nursery education locally, or risk losing their valuable expertise through...