Parents set to struggle to access ‘free childcare’ places through the new government offer as providers warn of limited capacity, new Alliance survey finds
Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders in England will be unable to provide enough early years places to match the increased demand caused by the upcoming expansion of the early entitlement offer, research from leading membership...
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has discovered that at least £55 million of early years funding was either left unspent or allocated against other budget pressures in 2020/21 by local authorities.
A huge proportion of this sat in designated schools grant reserves.
This was for the financial year during the worst of the Covid pandemic from April 2020 to March 2021 when three...
