Parents are facing soaring childcare costs as the Government’s controversial business rates review heaps financial pressure on nurseries, new research has shown. Nurseries and play schools will have to stomach
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The number of childcare providers in Scotland has fallen to a new low, according to Labour. Analysis of official figures by the party found there was a total of 9,282
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The cost of holiday childcare has risen by more than 50% across Britain since 2010, Labour has said. Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the situation was made worse because
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Parents could miss out on the Government’s flagship free childcare policy as plans are “riddled with holes”, Labour has said. Shadow education minister Tracy Brabin pressed the Government on how
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Poor children should be given as much high-quality early education and care as possible, a leading expert has said. There is a huge “pay off” for youngsters from disadvantaged homes
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A nursery in Perth has been told it must make swift improvements to the care provided to children. The Care Inspectorate has served a formal improvement notice on Little Einstein’s
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Scotland’s new Health and Social Care Standards have been launched, with human rights at their core. The standards, which will be implemented on 1 April 2018, will apply to the
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A nursery worker was slashed by three women who attacked her in the street while shouting “Allah”, her colleague has said. The white woman, who is in her 30s, was
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Labour has said that more than a million families will benefit its pledge to overhaul “patchy” childcare provision as it sought focus on its manifesto plans to roll out free
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Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is setting out plans for free nursery places for all three-year-olds in Wales as she resumes her party’s General Election campaign following a pause after
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