The government has announced funding of £57 million to extend the Start for Life programme for a further year.

A national wellbeing measurement is being considered as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, education ...

Increases to funding for the early years sector are failing to consider the rising cost pressures that providers face, an ...

The government is to introduce laws that make it an offence to fail to report child sexual abuse concerns, Home Secretary ...

Tool used by health visitors to observe babies’ social behaviour helps promote stronger parent-infant interactions and ...

Childcare social enterprise London Foundation (LEYF) is to take over the running of Hillingdon Council’s three early years ...

Youth workers are being urged to give their views on proposals to overhaul qualifications and training for the role in a bid ...

Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) applications rose by almost 25% according to the latest Ministry of Justice (MoJ) quarterly data ...

Ofsted chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver has questioned government plans for “safeguarding spot checks” on schools, instead ...

The damage from the pandemic caused to children’s development has been exacerbated by rising levels of child poverty. Here, ...

At the start of a new year, I have been reflecting on the year that was 2024; a real year of change that brought a general ...

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill includes powers for local authorities to monitor home-schooling and measures to ...