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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.
Using extracts from his new book on the subject, Damien Fitzgerald argues that the Government’s approach to early years policy has substantially reduced the essential focus on 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 Government climbdown on the proposal to relax the staff:child ratios in nurseries and childminders felt like a huge victory for the early years sector.
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Cuts in funding from central Government are forcing local authorities to take a different approach to their children's services and education, at a time of many other changes, writes Pauline Hoare.
Taking public services such as education and the early years out of politics may be the only way of funding them adequately.
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.
James Hempsall shows how delivering the 15 hours of free entitlement in rural areas is an important issue for providers, local authorities and their sufficiency duties.