The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has published a report evaluating the impact of training health visitors in the use of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), a tool to help with routine checks to promote...
Campaigners are warning that financial pressures on nurseries are limiting their ability to invest in early intervention and support for children. Sector body National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said new...
Childminding could disappear within the next decade without urgent government intervention, a charity has warned.
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An independent early years analyst has announced the closure of all its research programmes from next month due to insufficient funding.
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Attempts to find savings to help parents pay the bills would only trigger an exodus of low-paid staff, a government study warns
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Three-year-olds are on the video-sharing platform and it may be affecting their attention span British toddlers are increasingly likely to be users of TikTok, with a substantial number of parents saying their preschool...
It has been called the world’s most famous children’s centre, a globally influential early-years family project that grew out of one of the UK’s most deprived communities and provided the inspiration for Sure Start. Now...
At least £55m of early years funding was either left unspent or used to offset deficits elsewhere by local authorities in England, a report by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has found. Read the full...
The crisis in the UK childcare sector has been laid bare by two major surveys, with campaigners saying young families and struggling providers are being ignored by ministers as the cost of living crisis spirals. Read...
Disadvantaged parents are spending a third of their income on childcare costs as a result of government failure to properly fund the sector, providers have said. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
Tens of thousands of women who asked the government to look into cripplingly expensive childcare costs in the UK had their demands for an inquiry rejected by the government on International Women’s Day. Read the full...
Misty Ardouin set up her nursery, Nestlings, in Cardiff City centre in 2019. At the end of each day, they would have a “good sit down” in the playroom with parents to catch-up on everything the children had...
A landmark study has described the way primary school pupils are taught to read in England as “uninformed and failing children”, calling on the government to drop its narrow focus on phonics. Researchers at UCL’s...
