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Government announces nursery top-up fees ban

21/02/2025

Parents using Government-funded free childcare cannot be required to pay top-up fees for items such as nappies and snacks, according to new guidance.

Early years gets £2bn boost

10/12/2024

The early years sector is set to receive a £2bn funding boost next year as the final phase of the mass expansion of free childcare is delivered.

Labour pledges £15m to support 300 new nurseries

26/09/2024

Three hundred nurseries will be opened by next September to help address the rising demand for childcare, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson announces.

Councils’ confidence for childcare roll-out ‘worryingly low’

27/06/2024

Local authorities in England have raised concerns that they will be unable to meet demand in the next phase of the expansion of free childcare.

Leicester urged not to close half its family hubs

26/06/2024

Parents have launched a petition calling on Leicester City Council to drop plans to close six of its 12 children, young people and families centres.

Early years roll-out will get ‘significantly more challenging’

24/04/2024

Just one in 10 councils are confident they can provide enough early years places to deliver the Government’s childcare expansion on time, a spending watchdog has warned.

New £4.9m bonus scheme amid childcare expansion concerns

02/02/2024

The Government has launched a recruitment drive ahead of its free childcare expansion, but a major early years organisation has warned it will do little to boost staff numbers before rollout.

Councils raise alarm over free childcare offer

25/01/2024

Ahead of the roll-out of the expansion to free early education entitlements, councils have warned there may not be enough childcare places to meet demand.

LGA calls for family hubs extension

10/01/2024

Council bosses have called for an extension of the family hubs programme after the Government announced that all local authorities involved in the scheme offer access to a centre.

Parents ‘set for disappointment’ over childcare expansion

08/01/2024

The Early Years Alliance has warned that while the Government’s offer of an extended childcare entitlement ‘may sound good in theory, the reality is likely to be very different’.

Plan for schools needs local government ‘at its heart’

29/11/2023

England’s children’s services chiefs have set out a future vision to fix an ‘incoherent and fragmented’ education system.

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