More than 1,000 providers respond to survey on minimum wage increase
Alliance petition gathers opinions on rising minimum wages
Government research reveals rising cost of providing childcare
Frontier Economics report suggests that costs have increased since 2015
Maintained nurseries get £24 million funding boost
Money will replace supplementary funding due to end in 2020
A third of local authorities say 30-hours has impacted sustainability
Survey reveals local authority concerns about 30-hours offer
Schools invited to join baseline pilot scheme
Schools are invited to sign up for pilot scheme of reception class tests
Report calls for early years “revolution”
Health and Social Care Committee calls for better children’s services
Self-employed childcare providers risk losing Universal Credit payments
Alliance warns of risk to self-employed or sole-trader providers receiving Universal Credit
Report calls for focus on early years to close disadvantage gap
Sutton Trust warns of “substantial” gap between disadvantaged children and better-off classmates
Only 22% of expected families take up tax-free childcare
Government offer taken up by just a fifth of expected families
Pre-school Learning Alliance is now the Early Years Alliance
To reflect the growing range of early years providers we support, we’ve changed our name to the Early Years Alliance.
Alliance works with DfE and Ofsted to reduce workload pressures
Project will address workloads in the early years and how they can be addressed
30-hours policy is a “car crash,” according to new report
Education Select Committee argues that policy is “entrenching inequality” in new report