How viable are the Government’s plans to convert empty classrooms into nursery spaces and will it be a game changer? Join an expert panel for a lively discussion about what needs to happen to create ...

The Child Maintenance Service is ‘failing’ children, overlooks domestic abuse survivors, exacerbates parental conflict, and perpetuates society’s gendered ‘breadwinner’ model of household finances, ...

New research suggests councils are creating additional funding cashflow problems for early years providers, while at the same ...

A shortage of wrap-a-round childcare means children are spending longer on screens and devices, according to new research.

A quarter of parents in Britain have struggled to provide sufficient food for their children over the past 12 months due to ...

The Government is to introduce a 9pm watershed for junk food TV advertising in a move aimed at tackling the childhood obesity ...

Staff working in nurseries that have adopted relaxed two-year-old ratios feel ‘overwhelmed’ and are struggling to support children with their emotional development and toilet training, finds new ...

An action group concerned about the impact of screen time on young children’s development have written to the early education ...

The Department for Education guidance has been developed in collaboration with Dingley’s Promise in response to concerns ...

Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of East ...

A second nursery practitioner who worked at Tiny Toes Nursery in Stockport, the setting where Genevieve Meehan died, has been ...

A landmark study finds that almost half of England is classified as a childcare desert, which means that 1.4 million children and their families experience poor childcare accessibility.