Low pay and a lack of career benefits are leading to “generations of much-needed talent” being lost from staff working to educate and support society’s youngest children, according to a
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A third of nurseries in the most deprived areas of England may be forced to close permanently due to coronavirus-related financial difficulties, a report warns. Many parents are worried that
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Parents should be financially compensated during the Covid-19 outbreak as childcare should be recognised as full-time work, a new report says. A paper by the Institute for Public Policy Research
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A home childcare initiative will meet the needs of key workers, Northern Ireland’s health minister Robin Swann said. It is intended to help people in the NHS have their children
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Frontline health and social care staff, people involved in food production and delivery, and utility workers are among a list of workers deemed “essential” to the Covid-19 response. The Government
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Nurseries being closed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic is “absolutely devastating news” that will see early years providers forced to shut down, an industry body has claimed. The chief
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Schools across the UK are to close to all pupils except those of key workers in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19, Boris Johnson has said. Schools in
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All schools in Wales will close for an early Easter break by Friday in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Welsh Government has announced. Schools will be re-purposed in order
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More than 4,000 nursery staff need to be recruited to allow for the increase in free early learning and childcare (ELC) hours later this year, Audit Scotland has said. Reviewing
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Parents are paying 5% more for childcare for under-twos than a year ago, a report has found. The findings suggest that childcare costs are rising faster than price increases generally,
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