by Rose Porter | Mar 6, 2024 | News
Today, in the Spring Budget, the Government confirmed plans to increase the annual funding to the early years sector (estimated to be up to £500m). This increase will be based on a trackable indexing mechanism to ensure fees are in line with general inflation (CPI),...
by Rose Porter | Mar 1, 2024 | News
Public Health Wales’ Health Protection Team provide specialist public health advice on infectious disease control and deliver an All Wales Acute Response Service known as AWARe. The AWARe/ health protection team have recently launched their own Health...
by Rose Porter | Feb 8, 2024 | News
Today the DfE published it’s guidance for schools and trusts on their role in providing wraparound childcare to children of primary school age in England. This guidance outlines the role of schools and trusts and is designed to support both, regardless of their...
by Rose Porter | Feb 2, 2024 | News
A new national recruitment campaign has been launched in England by the Department of Education today across TV, cinema, online, radio and out of home advertising to encourage people to start a career working with small children ahead of the first phase of the largest...
by Rose Porter | Jan 25, 2024 | News
The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales 2024 has been published by Welsh Government. The Welsh Government’s new Child Poverty Strategy aims to tackle the harmful effects of living in poverty and improve opportunities for children living in poverty. Speaking as she...
by Rose Porter | Jan 25, 2024 | News
New Coram Childcare Survey on the expansion of the funded scheme shows Local authorities concerned about sufficiency of places ahead of roll-out. Coram spoke to 92 local authorities out of 153 with 60% saying they were ‘confident’ or ‘very confident’ that there will...
