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.
21/10/2020 - 08:26
Nearly a million children living in areas that are subject to coronavirus restrictions are set to lose access to free school meals over the holidays.
20/10/2020 - 11:40
Housing Minister Kelly Tolhurst has announced new funding for supported housing pilots in priority areas.
20/10/2020 - 09:06
An extension to the Energy Price Cap is set to help 11 million households from being overcharged on their energy bills.
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 - 06:40
Labour has called on the government to extend the provision of free school meals until the Spring – or face a Commons vote on the issue.
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.
14/10/2020 - 16:36
A new report has warned that moves to create supersize councils would result in local government ‘ceasing to exist’.
14/10/2020 - 11:34
Leeds’ planned Clean Air Zone is no longer required thanks to businesses switching to cleaner vehicles faster than expected.
14/10/2020 - 10:02
End Child Poverty coalition says that child poverty has risen most sharply in parts of the Midlands and Northern towns and cities.
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