The DfE has announced that childcare funding is to rise by 3.4 per cent for three and four-year-olds and by 4 per cent for two-year-olds in 2023-24, while an extra £20m is being provided to help cover...
The 30 hours policy will save some of the poorest households £5 per week, while the richest will gain ten times that, analysis finds.
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Just two weeks to go until election day - so who will get your vote? To help you decide, read our Special Report this week (pages 10-11) for a handy summary of the main political parties' early years...
* A Montessori teacher has been awarded Early Years Professional Status after training at the University of Hertfordshire. Toni Finkel is co-proprietor of Rexton House Nursery Schools and Daycare in...
CWDC is supporting the launch of City & Guilds' new Level 4 Award in Work with Parents, with a series of free, one day workshops. These are aimed at FE staff, voluntary, community and private sector...
The majority of schools are having to make redundancies due to the funding crisis, finds ‘largest ever’ school leaders survey.
Campaigners against physical punishment of children must feel like giving certain members of the Government a bit of 'reasonable chastisement' following the decision not to change the law on smacking...
The EYFS and Early Years Professional Status are widely acknowledged to have improved practice.
The system of tax credits to help parents pay for childcare has been beset by problems of fraud and misuse since it started, but there are now signs that the current economic conditions will lead to...