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While the rise in the number of adults being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes hit the headlines again recently, what is less reported is the sharp rise in recent years of the number of under-fives...
Family fortunes: the new politics of childhood Edited by Patrick Diamond, Sunder Katwala and Meg Munn
Thousands of early years and childcare workers are currently unable to undertake a Level 5 qualification in childcare because there is no Government funding available to them.
Despite DfE claims that childcare settings will now receive a ‘boost’ in funding rates (as of last week - 1 September), many providers say they are to receive £5 or less per hour for three and...
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.
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...
As this highly significant bill enters its final stages in Parliament, we ask Family and Childcare Trust policy and public affairs expert Adam Butler some key questions.
Taking public services such as education and the early years out of politics may be the only way of funding them adequately.
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