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.
28/11/2016 - 09:54
Reading Borough Council is to approve an additional £10.5 million in efficiency savings in a bid to fill a £42 million funding gap.
25/11/2016 - 14:18
Birmingham City Council's children's services have been rated as ‘inadequate’, marking no change in rating since 2008.
25/11/2016 - 11:50
Glasgow City Council has announced plans to have 50,000 new jobs and an additional 1000 new businesses by 2023.
25/11/2016 - 10:57
Worcester City Council has announced that it will move to a committee-based system, after members backed the motion at a full council meeting.
25/11/2016 - 10:45
A new report has discovered that 52 per cent of British adults believe that abuse and neglect in care homes for the elderly is common.
25/11/2016 - 09:50
The Bus Services Bill has been hampered by the ‘government’s failure to publish key secondary legislation and guidance’.
24/11/2016 - 12:41
Northampton Borough Council has apologised over its handling of a loan to Northampton Town Football Club, after a report by its internal auditor Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), described the council’s management as ‘inadequate’.
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’.
24/11/2016 - 12:11
Health and social care leaders and the Local Government Association (LGA) have condemned Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn Statement as a missed opportunity to announce new investment in care.
24/11/2016 - 11:57
Broxtowe Borough Council is being investigated by police, following a possible mass data breach.
23/11/2016 - 11:13
New research has claimed that 64 per cent of London’s councils have experienced a data breach in the last four years.
23/11/2016 - 09:48
The final councils have backed plans for the £800 million devolution deal for the Cambridge and Peterborough to go ahead.
23/11/2016 - 09:38
A new report has argued that the quality of adult social care has declined as a result of increased privatisation in the sector.
22/11/2016 - 10:34
Chancellor Philip Hammond is set to announce £400m of funding for a new Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund.
22/11/2016 - 09:59
Oxford County Council is considering a controversial levy on workplace car parking in an attempt to cut road congestion.
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