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The government are set to consult on proposed increases to Ofsted annual fees, childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed.

In a letter sent to early years organisations, the minister stated “…many providers have faced increases in...Read more

Childminder agencies will be rated as ‘effective’ or ‘ineffective’ rather than ‘outstanding’, ‘good’, ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’, Ofsted has confirmed.

According to the childminding agencies inspection handbook, published in...Read more

Labour MP Jenny Chapman has been appointed shadow childcare minister in party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s first reshuffle.

Prior to the reshuffle, Chapman had been shadow prisons and probation minister since 2011. She has a history of...Read more

Government funding for early help services will be cut by 71% between 2010 and 2020, the National Children’s Bureau reveals this morning.

A report titled Losing in the long run, compiled by Action for Children, National Children’s Bureau...Read more

Children who attend pre-school are more likely to take AS-level exams than those who don’t, new research has suggested....Read more

The government has finally responded to a report by the House of Lords Affordable Childcare Committee, nearly a year after it was published.

The...Read more

Early years practitioners are , the House of Commons has confirmed....Read more

The government will invest £300 million to increase the average hourly rate childcare providers receive, chancellor George Osborne has confirmed today (25 November).

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A drop in the number of registered childcare providers has caused early years places to decrease by 11,529 between March and August this year, suggest...Read more

The inspection of children’s centres has been put on hold pending the outcome of the government consultation, Ofsted has confirmed.

Along with its latest children’s centre statistics, the inspectorate gave an explanation for the temporary...Read more