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 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 MoreLondon business group says clarifying funding for providers could deliver £11bn economic prize by freeing more adults to workJeremy Hunt is being urged by business leaders to urgently fix the UK’s broken childcare...
Read MoreEducation secretary says she is ‘not in control of all the bits’ needed for delivery of 15 hours of free care from AprilThe education secretary has admitted that she cannot guarantee the government’s pledge to...
Read MorePersistent fears over staffing and funding could lead to promises being broken to parents weeks before likely poll dateRishi Sunak has been warned that he faces a pre-election “disaster” over his government’s...
Read MoreLabour highlights data showing children born during crisis have been slower at developing communication and other basic skillsOpinion: Education is not equipped to close Covid gapsBabies born in England during the Covid crisis...
Read More‘Maths is the language of the universe’ says shadow education secretary, promising ‘real world’ numeracy lessonsLabour says it will replace Rishi Sunak’s demand for compulsory maths classes until 18...
Read MoreTUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in EnglandChronic under-investment, exploitation and...
Read MoreCommittee also says government has more work to do to tackle structural problems in early years childcareMinisters should remove business rates and VAT from nurseries so that they are able to pay their staff more, a group of MPs...
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