Early years sector prepares for week of action
Providers support Fair Future Funding Action Week
Alliance reveals winner of Belle Tutaev Lifetime Achievement Award
Virginia Brown, pre-school leader at Crofton Early Learners, wins prestigious award
Government risks Sure Start success, according to new IFS report
Report says that Sure Start centres reduce childhood hospitalisations
Early years coalition launches survey ahead of proposed EYFS changes
Coalition launches survey on the EYFS
Call to save toothbrushing scheme
Scheme could save NHS £30 million
Ofsted confirms changes to inspection framework
New guidelines will focus on the “substance of education”
Alliance gives evidence at Treasury Select Committee
Chief executive Neil Leitch called for business rate relief similar to schemes for childcare premises in Scotland and Wales
30 hours policy “risks social mobility” according to new report
Social Mobility Commission suggests government focuses on disadvantaged families
Alliance announces week of campaign action
Alliance aims to engage with every MP in England about early years funding crisis
Childcare pay falling below retail, new study finds
New research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has found that declining childcare pay will converge with retail pay by 2021.
DfE announces £30k grant to help recruit men into the early years
New project aims to help encourage men to join the sector
Alliance office opening over Easter weekend
The Alliance’s offices will be closed over the Easter weekend, and will reopen as normal on Tuesday 23rd April.