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.
22/12/2016 - 14:26
Oxfordshire County Council has agreed to waive the rents of children's centres run by community groups for up to a year if they face closure.
16/12/2016 - 14:37
The government's failure to develop ‘credible’ plans to improve child protection is leaving children ‘at risk of harm’, a report claims.
15/12/2016 - 11:09
Major relationship support providers may not be sufficiently reaching families in or at risk of poverty, a new report claims.
15/12/2016 - 09:56
More must be done to the address the imbalance in arts funding between London and the rest of the country, a report suggests.
13/12/2016 - 10:37
If the government does not act urgently to halt drastic funding cuts, local authorities could see 340 public libraries close in the next five years
12/12/2016 - 11:21
The Local Government Association has urged the government to reverse the planned £600 million funding cut to the the education services grant.
01/12/2016 - 15:00
Local authorities are being urged to consider how they can best use libraries when delivering vital public services.
28/11/2016 - 09:37
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has called on MPs to support plans to ensure all children from poor backgrounds are automatically registered fro free school meals.
25/11/2016 - 14:18
Birmingham City Council's children's services have been rated as ‘inadequate’, marking no change in rating since 2008.
24/11/2016 - 12:13
County Durham Council has claimed that resolving a dispute over teaching assistants pay would cost millions of pounds and ‘hundreds of jobs’.
15/11/2016 - 10:35
The £600 million reduction proposed to the Education Services Grant should be reversed, the LGA has argued.
14/11/2016 - 12:55
Swindon Council has responded to an open Ofsted letter which criticised the ‘poor performance’ of the city’s schools, claiming it did not recognise the claims.
14/11/2016 - 12:42
A report from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has warned that over 20 per cent of UK business leaders believe their employees had been forced to reduce their hours as a result of the high costs of childcare.
02/11/2016 - 11:13
The government’s plans to cut the Education Services Grant is the equivalent to 'academisation by the back door’, the CNN has said.
27/10/2016 - 10:48
The Commons Justice Committee has said that more attention should be paid towards measures to prevent offenders aged 18-25 from reoffending.
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