PHE: Early years profiles – 2017 update

A Department for Education uplift of early years funding rates worth £400m will “fall short” of what providers need to deliver the government’s planned expansion of the funded childcare offer, sector leaders have said...

The government is to invest £400m in its plans to expand free childcare for working parents in England from April. The Department for Education (DfE) has also announced an increase in funding rates for nursery places...

An expected mass exodus of early years workers could undermine government plans to expand funded childcare hours, new research warns. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now Share...