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.
Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now
Childcare providers face a funding shortfall of more than £500m for delivering government childcare initiatives, a study has found. Ceeda estimates that childcare providers are facing a funding shortfall of in excess...
Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge to the government’s two-child limit on some benefits. Lawyers representing three families had argued that the policy was incompatible with human rights law. But a judge has...
The government must raise the status of early years teachers to prevent a brain drain from the sector, according to the educators’ union Voice and the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (Pacey). In a...
Single parents and families on low incomes gain the least under the government’s 30 hours and tax-free childcare initiatives, a charity has claimed. A study by the Family and Childcare Trust has found that couples and...
Small childcare providers are struggling to make ends meet, with some considering closing their doors for good, due to a shortfall in government funding for the 30 hours free childcare scheme in England, a report has...
Children and parents will be seen by health visitors at least eight times before their fourth birthday as part of an early intervention initiative designed to improve outcomes for children. The current statutory...
Plans to roll out the testing of four-year-olds in their first weeks at school have been unveiled by the government in the face of widespread hostility from many teachers who have vowed to oppose the new assessments...
The cost of childcare has soared by up to 47% since 2010, shock figures compiled by Labour reveal. Analysis shows nursery care now costs £121 a week for a two-year-old in England – up from £82 eight years ago. Yet...
Around 1,000 children’s centres have closed since 2009, twice as many as officially acknowledged, an education charity has claimed. The Sutton Trust said that official government figures, which show a 14 per cent...
Early years providers are increasingly relying on unpaid volunteers, an analysis of the childcare workforce by the Education Policy Institute has concluded. Concerns have been raised about a reliance on volunteer staff...
