The 30-hour offer risks widening the disadvantage gap as those ineligible for the funding face paying £205 per week more for a child under two, finds a new report, which calls for the entitlement for ...

Childminders are restricting the number of three- and four-year-old funded places they offer, or withdrawing from offering the provision entirely, finds a new survey.

The minister for early education, Stephen Morgan, on the importance of PVI settings in delivering the 30-hour offer for working parents.

Children progress in ways that cannot always be captured by a score, say Ruth Swailes and Aaron Bradbury, who make the case for a new approach to the levels of development they are expected to reach ...

Millions of pounds in unspent grant funding earmarked for the government’s landmark early years expansion for working families is yet to be allocated by local authorities to early years settings, ...

The role of the nanny has long been part of the UK’s childcare landscape, yet there are growing concerns that the profession is being overlooked, undervalued and even at risk of decline, warns early ...

Richard Willis, visiting professor at the University of South Wales, reviews a book that demonstrates how children use drawing to communicate ...

Understanding how children's environments affect their development is more important than ever with AI on the horizon ...

In the first of a new series on early life e, Professor Sam Wass, Dr. Gemma Goldenberg and Martin Ellory examine current ...

The announced investment in Best Start Centres only adds to the argument for a full reinstatement of the better-funded Sure ...

Looking back at our coverage of women's and mothers’ rights over the past 100 years is illuminating, while revealing how far ...