Sector-wide consultation on Level 2 Apprenticeship opens

Review finds that one in 10 children needs a social worker at some point

800 drop off Ofsted registration in three months

Number of children accessing support falls by almost a fifth

Childcare providers in areas of deprivation are twice as likely to close

Providers support Fair Future Funding Action Week

Virginia Brown, pre-school leader at Crofton Early Learners, wins prestigious award

Report says that Sure Start centres reduce childhood hospitalisations

Coalition launches survey on the EYFS

Scheme could save NHS £30 million

New guidelines will focus on the “substance of education”

Chief executive Neil Leitch called for business rate relief similar to schemes for childcare premises in Scotland and Wales