Early Years, OfS and School Admissions
Early Years funding Today, Thursday 31 October, we have announced that councils across England will receive a funding boost to deliver free childcare places, enabling parents to work more flexibly...
Early Years funding Today, Thursday 31 October, we have announced that councils across England will receive a funding boost to deliver free childcare places, enabling parents to work more flexibly...
Today’s Education in the Media blog looks at the £9m Holiday meals and enrichment fund announcement and the latest Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2018 statistics. Holiday meals...
...on childcare to over £6 billion per year by 2019-20. Alongside our 30 hours free childcare offer, we are spending over £2.5bn on free childcare for disadvantaged 2-year-olds over five...
...to it in schools, colleges, childcare and other education settings. Children and young people with mild symptoms such as a runny nose, sore throat, or slight cough, who are otherwise...
...programme. This prioritisation captures almost all preventable deaths from COVID-19 and will include thousands of those in the education and childcare workforce. The Department for Education is working with the...
...money than ever before to support early years education and childcare – around £6 billion a year by 2020. However, we recognise the need to monitor costs and the childcare...
...announced that councils will be able to move around government funding for free childcare entitlements in exceptional circumstances. This will support councils to make sure sufficient childcare places are available...
...remove the barriers that can hold women back. We have also introduced shared parental leave, doubled the amount of free childcare available to working parents and we are working with...
...of free childcare for two-year-olds. The government won the vote and, contrary to misleading statements from the opposition, this will mean that 50,000 more children receive a free school meal...
...Marketplace where schools and other education settings can buy air purifiers at a reduced rate. More information on our guidance for educational and childcare settings is available on gov.uk: Guidance...