Category - Early Years

A “severe and growing” staffing shortage in the early years sector is leaving families facing repeated disruptions to childcare services, new research shows. A survey of 1,395 early years providers, carried out by the Early Years Alliance...

Children in the early years have experienced adverse impacts on their physical health and wellbeing as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report shows.
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Roxie Broun from East Sussex was looking forward to her three-year-old son receiving his 30 hours of government-funded childcare at nursery. Yet, although the Department for Education’s (DfE) early years policy offers 15 or 30 hours of...

Researchers are warning that a “piecemeal” approach to expanding childcare provision by politicians over the last 25 years has resulted in a disorganised early years system that is failing to meet the needs of families. Read the full article on this...

Early years leaders have hit out at rumoured government plans to relax childcare ratios. According to the Telegraph, ministers are looking at implementing changes allowing each childminder to look after more toddlers at one time. Current guidance...