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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The House of Commons Education Committee has published a report on tackling disadvantage in the early years. The report, which focuses on early years education and the home learning environment, calls on the...
Reform of the “perverse” 30 hours funded childcare offer is vital, MPs have claimed – after finding the government’s early years policies are worsening disadvantage. Despite the...
More than 40 per cent of childcare workers are claiming benefits or tax credits as a result of being poorly paid – a higher proportion than less-qualified hairdressers and beauticians. More than 40 per cent of...
15 January 2019 Over the past decade or so, there has been an enormous increase in scientific knowledge and understanding of the extent to which the experiences of the very early years – from pregnancy to age three –...
Spending on Sure Start children’s centres and services for under fives plummeted by £110m last year, according to latest government data. Section 251 outturn data for 2017/18 shows local government expenditure on...
Spending on children’s centres has fallen by £110m over the last financial year, a drop of more than 14 per cent, government figures have revealed. A consultation on the future of Sure Start children’s...
The majority of parents on a low income are being put off work due to childcare costs, leaving children missing out on quality early years education that can boost their prospects, a study has found. Childcare costs can...
The Chancellor’s Budget will cost the nursery sector a total of £437m next year due to increases in the national living wage and lack of action to reduce business rates and offer more money for funded places...
Almost half of childcare providers are receiving less funding then they were five years ago, with the sector “systemically underfunded’, a study has found. Research agency Ceeda looked at rates handed...
A report published today by the Children’s Commissioner for England, suggests there are 15,800 babies under the age of 1 considered by local authorities to be vulnerable or highly vulnerable and at risk of harm, but...
