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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.
The Government has now published its analysis of the response to this consultation and as a first step has published statutory guidance which sets its direction of travel
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...
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...
Local authorities are applying varying interpretations of the Code of Practice - the rules covering the 15-hour free entitlement - in different areas, according to reports from Montessori settings.
Local authorities’ role will increase under the expansion of subsidised childcare, but are they in a position to do this?
More than half of local authorities in England anticipate permanent closure of childcare providers when Covid funding ends in January, a new report by Coram Family and Childcare has revealed.
Local authorities in Scotland have been awarded Pounds 180m over the next three years to improve the quality of life in communities, including schemes to benefit children. The cash follows grants of...
Proposed changes to early years funding in England are likely to hit local authorities already struggling with declining childcare places – largely in northern England –suggests new research.