The high cost of childcare is leaving working parents 拢2,600 short of a decent standard of living every year, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has claimed.
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Following its 2016 Childcare Survey, The Family and Childcare Trust has called on the government to address what it calls 鈥減ersistent problems with childcare provision in the UK鈥.
Ofsted has today called for more to be done to help disadvantaged two-year-olds access funded early education, following reports that last year approximately 80,000 eligible children did not take up their free place at an early years setting....Read more
Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, Angela Rayner has stepped up as shadow education secretary, following the resignations of both听Pat Glass听and Lucy Powell in the last few weeks.
All newly qualified level 2 and 3 early years practitioners will need to hold a Paediatric First Aid certificate in order to be included in ratios, the government has confirmed.
The government is set to review controversial early years qualification rules following widespread concerns its impact on recruitment in the early years, childcare minister Sam Gyimah has announced.