Early education and care for children aged from birth to five in England is at a critical point. On one hand, the cost of care and education to parents at
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Parents are being left without childcare as thousands of providers close. The overall number of childcare providers in England dropped by around 4,000 between March 2021 and March 2022, the
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Liz Truss’ plans to give stay-at-home parents a tax break will cause “a mass exodus of women from the workforce”, campaigners have said. The Conservative leadership contender (pictured) has proposed
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Six weeks’ worth of holiday childcare could cost working parents nearly £500 more per child typically than the same period during school term time, a report has found. Parents across
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Parents across Britain are being squeezed by rising childcare costs and a drop in available places, according to a charity. Coram Family and Childcare’s 21st annual survey of childcare costs
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Ofsted has withdrawn guidance suggesting childminders should notify the watchdog if they have depression or have been bereaved following criticism that the requirement would be “intrusive”. The guidance, first published
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Staff at a nursery which has become embroiled in a feud with Scotland’s health secretary over a place for his daughter have said they “cannot apologise for something we haven’t
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Calls in Parliament for a dedicated visa route to be provided for au pairs post-Brexit have been rejected by a minister, who said it was “labour on the cheap”. It
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Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this summer by Mumsnet
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Nicola Sturgeon will include plans for free wraparound childcare for the lowest income families as she seeks to build a “brighter and fairer” Scotland in the wake of the coronavirus
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