Today our blog looks at the free childcare entitlements being made available to parents as well as the Education Secretary’s ambition to visit alternative provision settings. Childcare Today, Tuesday 16...
Today’s news review looks at coverage of our capital funding announcement, and 30 hours free childcare. School places On Monday, 3 April, we announced £2.4 billion in capital funding to...
We’re taking important steps to deliver the expanded 30 hours free childcare scheme for working parents from when their child turns nine-months-old until they start school, saving them £6,500 a...
Today’s blog looks at the Government’s offer of 30 hours’ free childcare for working families. Free childcare Since September working parents have been entitled to 30 hours’ free childcare per...
Today’s news review examines a report released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency about staff at UK universities, and coverage of the government’s 30 hours’ free childcare offer. University staff...
...package of support for parents, which includes doubling our free childcare offer for three and four year olds to 30 hours a week, saving families around £5,000 per year. A...
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at a parents’ right to withdraw their children from religious education, and the latest figures on the uptake of 30 hours free childcare....
...to 30 hours free childcare by September 2017. We have also extended the flexibility of free childcare places, following feedback from our consultation, to support as many working parents as...
...also addresses a misleading article in the Mirror about our 30 hours free childcare pledge. ResPublica report On Monday, 31 October, think tank ResPublica issued a report, commissioned by Knowsley...
...hours free childcare offer. To celebrate this milestone the Department has released new research which shows that thousands of parents are taking advantage of the government’s 30 hours free childcare...