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Parents in London pay more for childcare and are less able to rely on the support of grandparents than families in other parts of the country, according to research by the Daycare Trust.
Coram Family and Childcare wants the Government to put in policies to reduce or remove childcare costs to help mothers living in the most expensive areas for childcare return to work.
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).
Childcarers can keep track of their own professional development with an improved and updated online resource, says Karen Faux.
Children are continuing to do better at school at the end of the EYFS, the latest statistics for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile show.
The UK's school system would rank higher in international league tables if the universal entitlement to free nursery places had been set up in the 1990s, new research suggests.
Children are at risk of sex abuse because of failures by councils and other agencies to get a grip on the problem, a damning new report has found.
How does the ability to form and retrieve memories develop in children, why is it important to early learning, and how can adults help to stimulate it? Anne O’Connor reports
The campaign to boost the training of early years practitioners is gaining momentum and settings are having to rise to the challenge of auditing staff qualifications. Mary Evans reports.