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A survey reveals that providers piloting the free entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds are faced with extra costs that are not covered by local authority funding, such as extra staffing and...
Schools minister David Laws has set out more details about the Early Years Pupil Premium, including plans for a pilot of the scheme.
Learning to read and write their own name is an important skill for children. Rachel Goodchild describes how to make this process fun using a range of creative activities Children are born with an...
I am a nursery teacher in a small local authority-run primary school. I have the pleasure of working with a fully-qualified, very experienced and knowledgeable nursery nurse. We work as a team and...
The Department for Education has asked the London Borough of Brent to help other local authorities develop and implement the Early Years Single Funding Formula in their areas.
Unison's chief negotiators have been forced to back down in their fight for a national pay settlement for Scotland's nursery nurses. At a meeting last week the public services trade union agreed that...
The latest ten local education authorities in England to be inspected jointly with the Audit Commission this autumn were announced last week by Ofsted. They are the London boroughs of Barnet,...
Recognition that the Government needs to keep its lines of communication open with local authorities around their changing role as the two-year-olds offer gathers pace, is a point that has been 'taken...
The introduction of the Early Years Single Funding Formula will be delayed by a year, the children's minister Dawn Primarolo told MPs today, amid concerns that two-thirds of local authorities are not...
Ten thousand more children will become eligible for pupil premium funding in plans announced by children's minister Edward Timpson today.