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.
02/08/2016 - 10:02
According to the Arvato UK Outsourcing Index, the value of outsourcing contracts signed by UK local authorities in the first half of 2016 increased by 84 per cent.
01/08/2016 - 12:39
Monmouthshire Council will pay £100,000 towards hosting the National Eisteddfod festival, after a fundraising campaign failed to reach its target.
01/08/2016 - 11:17
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found the effects of poverty to have cost the UK an average of £78 billion per year, with the NHS bearing the brunt of the costs.
29/07/2016 - 12:35
The Taxpayers’ Alliance has claimed that the HS2 project is an ‘expensive vanity project which must be scrapped’ in its new report.
29/07/2016 - 11:08
Regeneration schemes will be at risk if the government holds on to billions of pounds of EU money in the wake of the Brexit vote, the LGA has warned.
29/07/2016 - 09:36
North Lincolnshire Council has given the green light to one of the north’s largest housing regeneration schemes.
29/07/2016 - 09:31
Hampshire County Council has launched a consultation on the possible reorganisation of its local government structure, following recent debate.
29/07/2016 - 09:22
The agreement signed in March with the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) is due to go ahead, despite the current uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
28/07/2016 - 10:26
Millions of people will no longer be able to afford appropriate housing by 2024, new research published by the LGA warns.
28/07/2016 - 10:13
Derby City Council’s leaked plans to pass 11 libraries into the control of volunteers have been criticised by campaigners.
27/07/2016 - 09:26
Taunton Deane councillors have voted in favour of a proposal to merge with Somerset Council.
26/07/2016 - 12:25
Following a weekend of major disruption for cross-Channel travellers, the government has been urged to invest more in road infrastructure in Dover.
26/07/2016 - 09:37
The Tax Payers Alliance (TPA) is urging the government to abolish the ‘unfair’ stamp duty, as it is preventing people buying their own home.
26/07/2016 - 09:28
Thirteen winners will receive a share of the government’s £30 million low emission bus fund to add 326 new buses to their fleets.
25/07/2016 - 11:31
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for councils to be given extra powers to reject betting shop applications.
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