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We must work to make sure that young children don't get overlooked amid political manoeuvring.
Sure Start services should be reserved for the most disadvantaged families, Prime Minister David Cameron has said, while criticising the 'sharp-elbowed' middle classes for using them.
MPs have raised concerns that the Government will miss its target of ‘turning around’ the lives of England’s most ‘troubled families’.
Nursery staff are crucial to ensuring that children get the best start in life.
Services for children and adults who live in rural parts of England are sparse, inaccessible and of poor quality, according to the people who live there. Their comments are given in a report,...
The problems faced by low-income families have been ‘magnified’ by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research by the Child Poverty Action Group.
The Scottish nursery chain Red Apple Private Nurseries has been bought by an American childcare company. Acquiring the four Red Apple Nurseries - three in Edinburgh and one in Livingston - last week...
Children from low-income backgrounds who performed well in tests at age two are, by the age of six or seven, overtaken by previously less-able children from better-off families. This trend was...
Low-income families across the UK are having to turn down work or are considering leaving their jobs because they can't afford to pay for childcare, according to a new survey.
Families have launched a campaign to save seven children's centres threatened with closure.