The Government’s new childcare policy discriminates against the lowest earners and will hold many single parents back from going to work, a charity has warned. Gingerbread is concerned that the
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A restructuring of early years education delivery has been agreed by Essex County Council’s. The ECC cabinet decided in a meeting last week that the proposal which will close some
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Ofsted is from today seeking views on how childminder agencies should be inspected. The government’s Children and Families Bill 2013 will allow for the creation of childminder agencies. They will
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Childcare inspectors make sure the quality of childcare for children from birth to eight years is as good as it can be. Their inspections include crèches, childminders and school care.
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New investment by the government in Scotland could create as many as 2,000 full or part time childcare jobs, according to a Member of the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish government
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Childcare training in Scotland is receiving a £460,000 boost from the Scottish government for post-graduate and professional development places. This will fund extra opportunities for early years training for teachers
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Kent County Council has confirmed that the axe will fall on twelve of the county’s children’s centres and further twenty see their hours cut. For those that will close, services
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A Welsh Government minister was on hand to help cut the turf for a new Flintshire childcare centre. Vaughan Gething AM, Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty, cut the first sod
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Families will save up to £4,600 per child under SNP plans to extend free childcare in an independent Scotland. The policy is in the Scottish Government’s White Paper on independence,
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Inspectors found ‘significant issues impacting on safety and well-being of children’ – so owners closed down business overnight. The safety and well-being of children at a privately-run nursery in Bridgend
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