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.
23/01/2019 - 09:13
MPs have warned over a succession of high-profile academy failures that have been costly to the taxpayer and damaging to children’s education.
22/01/2019 - 09:22
New analysis of cloud adoption across councils, public bodies, universities and emergency services reveals slow progress and hurdles to climb.
18/01/2019 - 12:59
An additional 160 staff are to be recruited by Liverpool City Council to cut the caseload of children’s social workers by up to half.
17/01/2019 - 11:53
A new report has highlighted how children are increasingly choosing to spend hours indoors and on screens instead of playing outside.
17/01/2019 - 10:33
An Ofsted inspection has judged children’s social care services in Birmingham as ‘requires improvement to be good’.
16/01/2019 - 11:07
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has criticised Norfolk County Council’s provision for children with SEN following two investigations.
16/01/2019 - 10:13
A proposed new inspection framework is seeking to rebalance the process to make sure that young people receive the best teaching possible.
11/01/2019 - 09:24
Nearly a third of local authority secondary schools in England are unable to cover their costs, finds new research.
10/01/2019 - 12:07
A new report commissioned by City Hall predicts that as no schools in the capital will be exposed to illegally high levels of air pollution by 2025.
10/01/2019 - 10:50
Ofsted inspectors have judged Essex County Council’s children's social care services to be of the highest quality.
09/01/2019 - 10:57
Thousands of children in England with special educational needs are waiting too long for an education, health and care plan.
09/01/2019 - 09:27
133 out of 152 councils responsible for children’s services overspent in 2017-18, collectively overspending by an estimated £807 million.
08/01/2019 - 09:51
The government has revealed plans to fund 900 places on the Frontline children’s social work training programme up to 2021.
07/01/2019 - 09:22
Damian Hinds has outlined plans for life-saving skills such as CPR and how to get help in a medical emergency to be taught in every school from 2020.
21/12/2018 - 08:12
New analysis has revealed that two-thirds of academy chains across England are performing below average for disadvantaged pupils.
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