BUDGET 2023: Government must focus on early years availability and accessibility as well as cost, warns Alliance, following new FOI investigation
The government must take urgent action to ensure that families can access early years places when and where they need them, and not just focus on tackling rising costs, at this week’s Budget, leading early years organisation the Early Years Alliance...
· UK is losing at least £9.4bn in additional earnings per year as a lack of suitable childcare is preventing mums from working the hours they would like to · The estimated lost economic output is upwards of £27bn equivalent to 1% of GDP
A new report from economics thinktank the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) lays bare the economics costs of the lack of accessible, affordable childcare in...
NDNA, Walker Books and Maisy are all going to nursery – are you?
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has teamed up with Walker Books as they celebrate 30 years of “Maisy” stories using the picture book Maisy Goes to Nursery by Lucy Cousins.
They are hoping nurseries and other early years settings will take part in a dedicated storytelling day and are offering a whole...