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Category: News and events

Alliance launches new training bundle

Be the best: Manager launches in partnership with CACHE

Foundation stage profile results show growing inequality gap

Regional differences highlight inequality

Childcare voucher scheme closure has “negative impact” on families

Childcare Voucher Providers Association surveys families and providers

Just 160,000 families use Tax-Free Childcare as technical problems persist

Only a third of expected families take up tax-free childcare offer

Channel 4 to broadcast Train Your Baby Like a Dog show

Petition calls for show to be cancelled ahead of broadcast on 20 August

Government delays full Spending Review until 2020

Chancellor says next review will only cover the next year

Disadvantage gap in early years stops closing

EPI report warns over risk to progress in early years

Kemi Badenoch appointed early years minister

Saffron Walden MP takes over from Nadhim Zahawi

Nadhim Zahawi leaves Department for Education

Early years minister moves to BEIS

Gavin Williamson appointed education secretary

Former secretary of defence appointed amid cabinet reshuffle

56% of childminder applications take longer than 12 weeks

Ofsted statistics reveal long processing times

DfE proposes Ofsted registration fee increases for early years providers

Consultation on proposed changes to registration fees opens

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