Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for SeptemberThe deployment of the government’s childcare scheme to tens of thousands more families is facing “significant...
Read MorePilot to explore how to repurpose unused school space to increase capacity for funded childcareAn estimated 85,000 additional childcare places would be required by September 2025 to enable the government’s planned...
Read MoreFawcett Society warns sector is lacking in ambition and delivery and calls for free ‘universal’ hoursLabour in a bind over much-needed childcare reformEngland’s childcare system is failing and falling behind...
Read MoreGordon Brown and three former education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millionsVeterans of the last Labour government have called on Keir Starmer to put a new Sure Start-style...
Read MorePM insists the government is delivering despite Guardian analysis showing deterioration in three areasAt the weekend the Observer splashed on a story by Toby Helm saying government lawyers have told ministers that Israel is...
Read MoreLiberal Democrats say PM is ‘laughing in the face of people crying out for change’ Rishi Sunak has called for an urgent investigation by Israel into the airstrike that reportedly killed at least one British aid...
Read MorePM claims staffing levels have increased but says it will take time for the sector to growUK politics – latest updatesRishi Sunak has dismissed claims nurseries do not have capacity to deliver on a major expansion of free...
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Gillian Keegan asks Bridget Phillipson to clarify after party refused to commit to plan after...
Read MoreNick Thomas-Symonds says party would not reduce number of hours of government-funded childcare in EnglandLabour would keep the government’s expanded childcare hours, a shadow minister has insisted, after suggestions the...
Read MoreLabour says places have fallen by almost 40,000 since the Tories came to power in 2010, forcing parents to leave the workforceChildcare places in England have fallen by nearly 40,000 since the Tories came to power in 2010,...
Read MoreOpposition leader says some commitments were made before ‘the Tories did enormous damage to the economy’Starmer is summing up the Labour offer.This Labour party with Rachel Reeves as chancellor will value every pound...
Read MoreOpposition leader says some commitments were made before ‘the Tories did enormous damage to the economy’Starmer is summing up the Labour offer.This Labour party with Rachel Reeves as chancellor will value every pound...
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