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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Disadvantaged reception-aged children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are academically further behind their non-disadvantaged peers than at any other time on record, according to a new report...
Voters believe the best way to improve early education and childcare is to ensure providers are properly funded to deliver government schemes such as the expansion of free childcare hours for working families. This was...
A survey has found that 89 per cent of local authorities lack confidence that they can meet demand for the final phase of the roll out in September 2025, when 30 hours of free childcare will be made available to...
Children who are not classed as “school ready” by the time they start reception are more likely to be persistently absent in later years, research finds. Read the full article on this link to Children &...
Children across the UK are getting shorter, fatter and sicker amid an epidemic of poor diets, food insecurity and poverty, according to a report warning that millions are facing a “timebomb” of avoidable health...
Toddlers have been “sold out” to balance the books of the government’s childcare bill, according to nursery providers, who say young children have been put at risk by changes in supervision rules. Read the full article...
Sector leaders have raised concerns over a lack of “suitable” nursery places as the Department for Education opens applications for funded childcare hours to parents of children as young nine months. Read the full...
A training provider has raised “fundamental concerns” over changes being proposed by the government around the career progression of early years staff. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has raised concerns that the government’s extension of early years entitlement for working families will widen the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers. Read the...
The deployment of the government’s childcare scheme to tens of thousands more families is facing “significant uncertainties” and may struggle to meet its own targets, according to a report by Whitehall’s spending...
