Ensuring adults working in early-years settings have good qualifications and ongoing training is key to raising the quality of provision.

£9.1 million of funding will be used to help offer 50,000 disadvantaged children free meals and activities over the upcoming summer holidays.

A £10 million investment is set to help over 500 schools take part in a pioneering scheme to tackle bad behaviour.

The government is reportedly considering forcing schools to open over the summer holidays so that they can be used for activities.

Damian Hinds is asking local authorities, schools and colleges how the funding system for pupils with special needs and disabilities could improve.

A new report has warned that constricted funding and increasing demand have left children’s services in England at breaking point.

A new government-backed programme is encouraging men to start careers in nurseries and early years settings.

Special needs provision in England has lost out on £1.2 billion because of shortfalls in funding increases from central government since 2015.

A £15 million fund will be available to local authorities and schools in Wales to fund projects that cater for the local community.

Ofsted has revealed the scale of the problem of unregistered schools in England, uncovering more than 500 suspected illegal schools.

New guidance will support councils to negotiate what funding is required from housing developers for new schools and school expansions.

New research has revealed that an additional 12,835 school classrooms will be needed in England by 2021/2022 in order to meet rising demand.

More than a third of local areas in England have reduced real terms spending on low level children’s mental health services.

Children in and on the edge of care will benefit from £84 million of new investment for projects designed to strengthen and support families.

Somerset County Council has announced six ‘Community Library Partnerships’ have recently been signed.

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