An award-winning project in a deprived part of the North West is helping families access early years support and better ...

The rate of growth in income and profit levels among England’s largest children’s social care providers has slowed in the ...

The MP for Epsom has said the arrest of children as young as 11 in connection with recent protests in the Surrey town should ...

Early years campaigners in Scotland and Wales have called on the devolved governments to urgently review funded childcare rates, warning that persistent funding ...

A committee of MPs has raised concerns about how families will challenge decisions under the government’s proposed special ...

In the third part of his series of articles on implementing the Best Start strategy, James Hempsall sets out how councils and ...

Boosting the incomes of the poorest families may lead to fewer child protection plans and reduced demand on children’s social care services, researchers have claimed. Parents and carers said financial ...

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act has become law, delivering landmark reforms aimed at cutting costs for families, ...

Early childhood researchers Sara Bonetti and Ivana La Valle summarise key findings from a project that offers children with ...

The revised Ofsted inspection framework for education providers is unfairly penalising schools that serve communities with higher levels of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and ...