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Fourteen more local authorities are set to extend the free early education entitlement for three- and four-year-olds to 15 hours a week from next September.
A new report by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) estimates the costs to the economy and Government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.
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.
Four local authorities have been cited as beacons of good practice for their integrated children's services. Essex, Knowsley, West Sussex, and Telford and Wrekin received the Beacon Status award from...
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...
Local authorities' plans for children and young people are examined in the National Foundation for Educational Research's interim report, Analysis of the 2006 Children and Young People's Plans, to be...
Public services union Unison has blamed the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities for prolonging its six-month-long dispute over nursery nurses' pay by refusing to negotiate nationally. The...
More local authorities have confirmed details of the funding for the 30-hour childcare pilots, with the early education entitlement and the extra childcare paid at different rates.
(Photograph) - Little Learners nursery in Catford, London, beat 15 other exhibitors to win 'best dressed stand' at the Childcare Fair in Lewisham. Co-managers and sisters Miranda and Marsha Charles...
Family fortunes: the new politics of childhood Edited by Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala and Meg Munn