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Fresh start for childminding

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

| CYP Now

Childminders provide essential childcare for many families, but numbers continue to fall. How can services successfully recruit and support more childminders and help reverse the decline?

Early SEND support needs going unmet

Analysis

Monday, April 29, 2024

| CYP Now

A shortage of special needs support in the early years is increasing pressure on childcare providers and schools, new reports reveal.

Disadvantaged children set to miss out on early years expansion, NAO warns

News

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

| CYP Now

The National Audit Office (NAO) has raised concerns that the government’s extension of early years entitlements for working families will widen the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers.

Working migrant families 'locked out' of funded childcare expansion

News

Monday, April 22, 2024

| CYP Now

Tens of thousands of working migrant families are missing out on government funded childcare, human rights campaigners have warned.

DfE to repurpose unused school spaces for childcare

News

Monday, April 22, 2024

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has revealed plans to pilot the use of surplus school spaces to offer childcare provision as part of its expansion of funded hours.

Childcare leaders question DfE claims of successful rollout of expanded entitlement

News

Friday, April 19, 2024

| CYP Now

Early years bodies have questioned government assertions that the rollout of the funded childcare expansion is going to plan and claim that latest data fails to show a complete picture of the reality on the ground.

Poorer families in England spending more on childcare costs than in other countries

News

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

| CYP Now

England is one of only a few countries where poorer families spend a higher proportion of their income on childcare than their more well-off peers, new research finds.

GCSE results for disadvantaged children 'greatly improved by Sure Start'

News

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

| CYP Now

Children eligible for free school meals (FSM) who live near a Sure Start centre saw increased performance at GCSE by three grades, six times higher than children not eligible for FSM, new research has found.

Ofsted extends ability to pause complaints to social care and early years providers

News

Monday, April 8, 2024

| CYP Now

The ability to pause Ofsted inspections in circumstances where there are concerns for leaders’ wellbeing will be extended to cover children’s social care and early years providers, the inspectorate has said.

Providers call for greater government support as funded childcare expansion rolls out

News

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

| CYP Now

Sector leaders have called for “urgent” support from government as the first phase of its funded childcare expansion rolls out.

Interview: Brett Wigdortz, founder and chief executive of childminder agency Tiney

Interviews

Monday, April 1, 2024

| CYP Now

The founder and chief executive of childminder agency Tiney speaks to Derren Hayes.

Farm setting boosts children’s resilience

Features

Thursday, March 28, 2024

| CYP Now

Award-winning childminding setting provides thrill-seeking outdoor adventures to foster children’s emotional resilience and improve their wellbeing.

Princess of Wales' charity urges roll out of health visitor tool to ‘interpret baby behaviour’

News

Thursday, March 21, 2024

| CYP Now

A tool to help health visitors interpret babies' behaviour should be rolled out nationally following “overwhelmingly positive” results from a trial of its use funded by the Princess of Wales’ charity the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.

Majority of councils lack sufficient SEND childcare provision, survey finds

News

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

| CYP Now

Just 6% of councils now say they have sufficient childcare provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), a major new report finds.

Consultation launches to boost childminder recruitment and retention

News

Friday, March 15, 2024

| CYP Now

Monthly funding payments to childminders by local authorities and greater flexibility for childminder agencies are among proposals included in a government consultation to improve recruitment and retention in the profession.

Support schools and nurseries to tackle poverty, Longfield’s think-tank urges ministers

News

Friday, March 15, 2024

| CYP Now

Programmes within schools and nurseries should be at the forefront of a government plan to tackle childhood poverty, a think-tank led by the former Children’s Commissioner for England has told ministers.

Tougher regulation needed to tackle ‘excess profiteering’ in early years, says charity

News

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

| CYP Now

Regulation of private early years providers needs to be strengthened to tackle “excess profiteering” and improve quality, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).

Advice for early years staff on supporting children with parents in prison

News

Thursday, March 7, 2024

| CYP Now

A new resource for early years providers has been produced to help staff support children with a parent or close relative in prison.

Budget 2024: Chancellor commits £165 million to boost children's homes capacity

News

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

| CYP Now

A £165 million boost to increase children’s homes capacity in England is among measures to support children and families included in the government’s latest budget.