74% of settings charge parents for additional services

Hansard record updated to clarity comments about business rate discounts for childcare providers

Chancellor does not address early years funding concerns in statement

Alliance petition gathers opinions on rising minimum wages

Frontier Economics report suggests that costs have increased since 2015

Money will replace supplementary funding due to end in 2020

Survey reveals local authority concerns about 30-hours offer

Schools are invited to sign up for pilot scheme of reception class tests

Health and Social Care Committee calls for better children’s services

Alliance warns of risk to self-employed or sole-trader providers receiving Universal Credit

Sutton Trust warns of “substantial” gap between disadvantaged children and better-off classmates

Government offer taken up by just a fifth of expected families