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.
22/03/2017 - 09:17
Norfolk County Council has been issued with a £60,000 penalty after it was revealed confidential files regarding vulnerable children had been left in a cabinet which was sent to a second-hand shop.
21/03/2017 - 12:18
A new report has argued that councils must become more creative and collaborative in their use of technology in order to plan for future problems.
21/03/2017 - 10:16
A survey by the ICO has revealed that a quarter of councils are yet to appoint a data protection officer.
21/03/2017 - 09:50
Road-building is failing to provide the congestion relief and economic boost promised, a new report has claimed.
20/03/2017 - 12:05
A new joint report, published by the Local Government Association (LGA) and Public Health England (PHE), has warned that not enough is known about the health and well-being of people living in the countryside.
20/03/2017 - 11:50
People in Durham have voted in favour of creating a new parish council for the city.
20/03/2017 - 11:37
The Met's parliamentary liaison and investigation team has reported a total of 53 hate crimes committed against MPs in the six months between August and early February.
20/03/2017 - 11:13
According to a BBC Panorama investigation, 95 UK councils have had their contract with care firms cancelled because the firms were unable to deliv
17/03/2017 - 11:08
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has said that full powers could be returned to Tower Hamlets council following a two-year intervention by central government.
17/03/2017 - 10:57
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has warned that changes to councils’ transport policies are having a negative effect on children trying to get to school.
17/03/2017 - 10:26
Wirral Council has revealed plans for the transformation of Wirral through a £1 billion development opportunity.
17/03/2017 - 09:58
Waveney District has published a report making a series of recommendations to improve the response to storms, after it labelled the response to January’s storm surge ‘inadequate’.
17/03/2017 - 09:25
Figures from the House of Commons library have shown that seven out of 10 of the council wards with the slowest download speeds are in Wales.
16/03/2017 - 12:15
The HCA has announced it will provide a £45 million loan to build over 4,500 new homes at a site near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
16/03/2017 - 12:05
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough devolution deal has been agreed, with a new mayor to be elected on 4 May.
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