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30 June

• Alliance responds to new school-based nursery announcement

26 June

• Government early years policy at risk of “embedding inequality” Alliance CEO to warn

25 June

• Alliance publishes new essay collection on supporting children and families most in need

17 June

• Alliance calls for schools evicting PVI settings to be banned from school-based nursery scheme, as government confirms £370m funding allocation in Spending Review

12 June:

• Alliance reacts to the Spending Review

11 June

• Alliance responds to IFS research on benefits of Sure Start

4 June

• Government policy on online safety and digital literacy must include focus on the early years, leading professional bodies warn

22 May

• Alliance responds to IFS research on benefits of Sure Start

12 May

• Alliance comments on new DfE floor space requirements consultation
• Alliance voices concern over final stage of early entitlement expansion as applications open

1 May

• Alliance releases new SEND toolkit for early educators

28 April

• Alliance releases new toolkit to help support the transition from early years to school

10 April

• Alliance launches school-based nursery FoI investigation

2 April

• Alliance reacts to allocation of first phase of school-based nursery funding 

26 March

20 March

• Alliance calls for sector support as Coram's annual childcare survey shows disadvantaged children and those with special education needs are most likely to struggle to access provision

18 March

• Alliance slams exclusion of private and voluntary early years providers from National Insurance cost support 

13 March

• Parents set to face shortages of government-funded early years places and rising costs as nurseries and childminders face "perfect storm" of government policy changes, new survey finds 

21 February

• Alliance urges government to address early years funding issues as updated charging guidance is released

3 February

• Alliance responds to new Ofsted inspections proposals 

2 February 

• Alliance welcomes Centre for Early Childhood framework on social and emotional development 

30 January 

• Alliance responds to Kindred² School Readiness Survey showing a third of reception-aged children struggled to share or play with others, and a quarter are not toilet trained

29 January

• Alliance prepares to celebrate SEND at two new Connect Roadshows in Nottingham and Bristol

28 January

• Alliance responds to introduction of experience-based route guidance and government consultation response

15 January

• Alliance calls for early years to be central to SEND reform as Public Accounts Committee on SEND reform is published

13 January 

• Conflicting government policy on National Insurance risks leaving early years providers "stuck between a rock and a hard place", Alliance warns. 

8 January

• Alliance responds to IFS annual education spending report