While early years workers deserve more pay, the sector cannot afford another rise to minimum wage rates without more funding, the Early Years Alliance has warned.
Although Early Years Capital Grant funding is winding down, nurseries can take a tip from settings that have used it on how best to make improvements, says Mary Evans.
Whichever party wins the upcoming General Election, investment will remain a priority for the early years sector
Margaret Mason is founder and chief executive of Children 1st Day Nurseries, which now runs 20 settings after acquiring two nurseries in Leek, Staffordshire
A community nursery in the London Borough of Hackney that was due to receive 330,000 from the Early Years Capital Grant has become one of the latest victims of Government cuts.
Neighbourhood nurseries need 'continued ongoing funding' if they are to survive in the wake of next year's subsidy withdrawal, according to the largest voluntary provider of the initiative. Steve...
Early years organisations have welcomed Government plans to create centres providing health, education and childcare services for families in the poorest parts of England, and to create a new unit to...
* The Pre-school Learning Alliance has produced The Child in Focus, a guide to support practitioners which considers psychological theories of learning and their practical applications, methods...