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There's no evidence for childcare ratios change

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 27, 2023
    • | CYP Now
A decade on from its initial failed attempt, the Conservative government has finally decided to push ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds a childcare practitioner can look after.

Benefits of funded childcare need selling

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2018
    • | CYP Now
When searching for reasons for the low take-up of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds in England, debate has focused on whether providers are being adequately remunerated to create sufficient places.

Resilience prevails amid Osborne's bleak choices

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, December 11, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Like a piercing, bitter English winter, Chancellor George Osbourne's "autumn statement" was eye-wateringly harsh. It is, without doubt, children and young people growing up in the most deprived households who are being asked to bear the brunt.

Army of childminders can help bridge the gap

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 20, 2012
    • | CYP Now
Social mobility is thankfully all the rage these days, and the free childcare entitlement is a crucial policy to help all children get the best start in life regardless of background.

Never mind the inspectorate, recruit the right inspectors

    Opinion
  • Monday, April 18, 2011
    • | CYP Now
On the face of it, the education select committee's call to split Ofsted into two separate inspectorates for education and children's care would represent a further step away from services centred on the needs of the whole child. It is a trend played out in several areas through the disappearance of children's trust arrangements and local authority children's services departments.

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