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Providers across the country say they are unable to budget for the year ahead as many local authorities have yet to consult on 2020/21 funding rates, which will be effective from April.
Ministers in the Scottish government are being asked to clarify policy on partnership places, following claims that local authorities have withdrawn the funding from several private nurseries.
The Government’s renewed attempt to reduce ratios suggests that once again it is not engaged with the sector’s challenges
The Children's Play Council has launched its 15m Big Lottery-funded Play England project (see Nursery World, 2 March) with a dedicated website, www.playengland.org.uk, and an advice line, 020 7843...
The Scottish Executive has pledged to continue supplying additional resources to rural local authorities to provide early education and childcare. From April 2002, this funding will no longer be held...
Thanks to 20,000 of grant funding a remote part of north Cumbria has new local childcare facility, saving parents from long commutes. Brewston pre-school, which meets five mornings a week, is run as a...
A disused fire station and a former care home are among the premises being redeveloped as neighbourhood nurseries with the help of more than 900,000 awarded by the New Opportunities Fund last week....
Outgoing Barnardo's chief executive Martin Narey has blamed the falling number of children being adopted on the prejudice of local authorities who will not let white parents adopt children of other...
Many children in nurseries are eating unhealthy meals high in fat, salt and sugar, including food with additives that are banned for the under-threes, research has found.
A numeracy programme for pre-school children as young as one is being launched in libraries across 20 local authorities in England and Scotland.