Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
22/10/2020 - 08:50
The Health and Social Care Committee has called for a £7 billion annual increase in social care funding as a starting point for reform.
22/10/2020 - 08:43
Robert Jenrick has confirmed allocations for individual councils from the £1 billion of additional support announced earlier this month.
21/10/2020 - 16:34
The Chancellor has decided to conduct a one-year Spending Review in order to prioritise the response to coronavirus.
21/10/2020 - 09:01
Stronger collaboration between councils, health bodies and business could fill the strategic planning void if the duty to co-operate is axed.
21/10/2020 - 08:39
Skills for Care has found that the adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies on any given day.
20/10/2020 - 09:48
Family carers are going without crucial services, whilst providing many hours of additional care for loved ones with increasing needs.
19/10/2020 - 13:05
Mark Drakeford has announced that Wales will go into a national ‘firebreak’ lockdown from 23 October until 9 November.
19/10/2020 - 08:25
The supply of food to care homes, schools, hospitals and prisons is at risk unless the government steps in to support struggling wholesalers.
19/10/2020 - 06:30
The amount of household recycling collected has soared as much as 100 per cent in some council areas during the pandemic.
16/10/2020 - 14:24
Manchester City Council is set to take direct control of 13 off-street city centre car parks from 1 January 2021.
16/10/2020 - 12:44
The CQC has warned that an under pressure social care sector is ‘fragile’ heading into a second wave of coronavirus infections.
16/10/2020 - 09:33
The 2025 target for faster gigabit coverage nationwide will be particularly difficult to achieve for the hardest to reach premises.
15/10/2020 - 14:55
Reform has claimed that the next cyber security strategy must play a more active role in enforcing standards across the country.
15/10/2020 - 08:01
Labour is urging the government to ditch Serco and let councils and local public health teams run contact tracing.
15/10/2020 - 07:51
Cuts to early intervention funding in the past decade must be urgently reversed as councils prepare for a surge in demand for support for young people.
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