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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.
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.
Childcare professionals are being invited by a television production company to take part in a documentary series to help hassled parents bring some order to their chaotic family life. Ricochet South...
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.
To prepare for the roll-out of funded two-year-old places to 20 per cent of two-year-olds from September 2013, the Department for Education (DfE) funded ten trial areas from September 2012 to March...
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.
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 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 DCSF has announced that 56 local authorities have been approved to implement the Early Years Single Funding Formula from April by becoming second-wave pathfinders.
Two-thirds of local authorities are failing to provide enough childcare for parents, according to new research.