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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More babies are dying within a year of being born, in a “disturbing reversal” of several decades of the NHS’s success in reducing infant mortality. Health professionals, charities and midwives voiced serious concern at...
Early years providers are increasingly relying on unpaid volunteers, an analysis of the childcare workforce by the Education Policy Institute has concluded. Researchers examining data on the early years workforce in...
Qualified staff are quitting nurseries in large numbers due to low pay, endangering the government’s push to increase the provision of high-quality childcare, it has been claimed. The latest annual Workforce...
Families face a struggle to find affordable childcare provision due to a hike in prices and lack of 30 hours free entitlement places, an annual survey of councils has revealed. The cost of childcare for children under...
ECEC is a broad area of work and study, so inevitably there are omissions. Resources below are purely indicative and have been published by a range of sources: government departments, publicly funded agencies, and...
The government has pledged to plough £50m into bolstering early years provision in disadvantaged areas, as part of an action plan to improve social mobility. Education Secretary Justine Greening said social mobility...
Council spending on children’s centres and early years support has fallen by nearly £700m since 2010, analysis of government figures shows. In-depth evaluation of local authority section 251 “outturn”...
The on-going challenges around recruiting men into the Early Childhood workforce are explored in this research article which reports the experiences of undergraduate students considering working with young children.
Seven out of 10 councils will not see an increase in the hourly rates they are paid to fund the free childcare entitlement in 2018/19. The early years national funding formula figures for 2018/19, just released by the...
