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The education secretary on a visit to Kingsway Family Hub in Halton, PHOTO: X/Twitter
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Government's long-awaited Family Hubs now open to families in 75 areas

Families
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New Year: The sector reveals its hopes and ambitions for 2024

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The DfE has now published a childminder-specific EYFS, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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New childminder EYFS introduced

Policy & Politics
Just Childcare and All About Children have merged under the brand of their owners, the Dutch nursery group Partou PHOTO: Partou
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Nursery groups Just Childcare and All About Children merge under ownership of Partou

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Sir Martyn Oliver PHOTO Ofsted
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Ofsted puts school inspections on hold for mental health training for inspectors, but early years inspections will continue

Inspection
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Nursery group Alpha Nurseries closes due to financial problems

Provision
The sector has reacted with surprise to Pen Green Children's Centre's Inadequate inspection grade, PHOTO: Pen Green Centre
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Sector voices its support to Pen Green Children's Centre after Inadequate Ofsted grade

Provision
Team Leaders Shamima Begum and Kayley Henry with practitioner Mariama Faal at Childbase Partnership's Crescent Day Nursery in Edgbaston, Birmingham PHOTO Childbase
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Childbase staff to receive attendance award in extra paid leave

Provision
The latest DfE data shows the drop in childcare providers is largely down to a loss of thousands of childminders in a 12-month period, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Concerns childminders will cease to exist as DfE survey reveals a 5 per cent drop in childcare providers

Provision
The first report of the DfE commissioned Children of the 2020's study has been published PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Young children's understanding of language nearly back to pre-pandemic levels

Families
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Slight rise in children achieving 'a good level of development' at end of EYFS

Areas of Learning
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Extended hours: New funding rates fail to meet 10 per cent rise to minimum wage, analysis shows

Funding
The DfE has confirmed the national average funding rates for the delivery of the extended offer from April, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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DfE confirms extended 30 hours funding rates, but sector says they don't reflect the 'real delivery cost'

Funding
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Ofsted to bring in changes to post-inspection complaints process from January, as 80 per cent back plans

Policy & Politics
The sector has raised concern about viability of early years settings with increases to the minimum wage coming in, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
News

Autumn Budget: Increase to minimum wage will 'tip many early years settings over the edge'

Policy & Politics
The research highlights how in many local authorities in deprived areas there are three children for every one early years place, risking 'locking' them into a 'lifetime of poverty'
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Nearly half of children under five live in 'childcare deserts'

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