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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has today warned that if the government goes ahead with plans to freeze early years funding rates until 2019/20, childcare costs are likely to be on the increase.

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Freedom of...Read more

At Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is to lay out plans for an early years taskforce designed to transform early years provision.

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Angela will highlight that every...Read more

The government has confirmed that new paediatric first aid rules have not yet been implemented.

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A consultation on first aid changes was held between October and December 2015, and...Read more

The government’s education committee is to launch an inquiry into primary assessment following what the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has called “chaos and confusion” around the topic.

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Earlier this...Read more

Small button batteries – found in a range of domestic items – can burn a hole through the lining of a child’s oesophagus should they accidently swallow them, surgeons have claimed.

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London’s Great Ormond Street...Read more

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has said that the government must “come clean” about the problems with the funding of the 30-hours free childcare scheme.

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The Department for Education ran a consultation on early...Read more

Researchers in Finland have claimed that a healthy diet has a significant impact on children’s literacy skills.

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The universities of Eastern Finland and Jyväskylä studied 161 children between the ages of six and...Read more

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has called on the government not to implement the 30-hours offer, in a report titled, ‘We can solve poverty in the UK’.

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Released yesterday, the report proposes that the existing 15...Read more

The number of childcare providers going bust has nearly doubled in the last year due to the “soaring costs” of childcare, accountancy firm Moore Stephens has claimed.

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29 providers closed down in England and Wales in...Read more

Pilots of the 30-hours free childcare scheme are due to start next month, but Neil Leitch, chief executive at the Pre-school Learning Alliance, is concerned about its viability.

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The government...Read more