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The true number of children in the UK who have type 2 diabetes may be going unnoticed, claims a report in this week's BMJ. It said that cases of children with type 2 diabetes had been linked to the...
New NHS figures reveal the number of children with type 2 diabetes is on the rise, with 1,560 children in England now with the condition.
Local authorities in Scotland have been reminded that they are now under a duty to make a free part-time pre-school education place available for all three- and four-year-olds. Minister for education...
The DfES is consulting on draft regulations on how to set targets that local authorities will need to meet under the Childcare Act. Children's minister Beverley Hughes said, 'It is essential that we...
Local authorities must do more to include nursery schools in a more formal and strategic way to improve the quality of nursery education locally, or risk losing their valuable expertise through...
A new guide calling for local authorities to ensure that early years communication is a designated responsibility within every local authority has been launched by the National Literacy Trust's early...
Local authorities and Primary Care Trusts have been invited to bid for a 20m, two-year pilot scheme for free school meals, unveiled by children's secretary Ed Balls and health secretary Alan Johnson.
Local authorities have raised concerns that many of the childminders coming forward to offer funded places for two, three and four year olds are not sufficiently well-qualified to provide high quality...
Early Education and the NAHT have today written to 100 local authorities in England urging them to put on hold plans to close maintained nurseries schools in their areas.
The majority of local authorities do not think they will have enough places to meet demand for the expanded offer, according to new research by Coram Family and Childcare.