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Councils will be able to bid for capital grants to drive the Government’s expansion of the 30 hours entitlement.
To prepare for the roll-out of funded two-year-old places to 20 per cent of two-year-olds from September 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) funded ten trial areas from September 2012 to March...
Local authorities are changing their interpretations of the Children Act ahead of the new arm of Ofsted taking over regulation and inspection, says Annette Rawstrone
Elizabeth Truss has written to councils in England to encourage them to talk to existing childcare providers, including schools, about how they could provide more affordable and flexible childcare.
The three unions representing local government workers -Unison, TGWU and GMB - said last week they were 'bitterly disappointed' at the failure of talks with local government employers under the...
A new report from Frontier Economics and Coram Family and Childcare finds that councils are worried about the supply of school-age childcare, including breakfast and after-school clubs.
Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.
Local authorities are adopting their own techniques to encourage healthy eating. The catering team for the East Riding of Yorkshire last month held a 'Design your own healthy school lunch'...
Schools minister David Laws has set out more details about the Early Years Pupil Premium, including plans for a pilot of the scheme.
Any play setting wanting to participate in this year's Playday 2003 can do so with the help of low cost information packs and posters from The Children's Play Council (see address below). Playday 2003...