Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
16/02/2022 - 08:19
YMCA has revealed the annual spend per head on five-to-17-year-olds in England has plummeted from £158 in 2010/11 to just £37 in 2020/21.
15/02/2022 - 08:52
The government has said that £125 million will be handed to councils to make sure safe accommodation spaces can provide victims with vital support services.
15/02/2022 - 08:49
Councils are warning that essential bus routes may have to be axed from the end of next month if emergency government funding support is not extended.
11/02/2022 - 10:29
The Welsh Government has confirmed a consultation on proposals for a local visitor levy will launch in autumn 2022.
08/02/2022 - 09:44
Councils have warned that they will have to scale back road maintenance as local authorities face a £500 million funding reduction.
08/02/2022 - 09:21
Councils will have access to a share of £54.1 billion in funding for the coming financial year, including more than £1 billion for social care.
07/02/2022 - 14:16
Motorists are set to benefit from a government crackdown on rogue parking firms which will see fines slashed and a clearer appeals system created.
07/02/2022 - 10:15
The TUC has warned that millions of low-income workers face a ‘perfect storm’ this April with Universal Credit falling behind the cost of living.
04/02/2022 - 11:12
The Public Campaign for the Arts has found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services has halved across England since 2009-10.
03/02/2022 - 12:07
Rishi Sunak has announced that millions of households will receive £350 of government support to help protect them from rising energy costs.
03/02/2022 - 07:52
Government policies to stimulate local economic growth are not consistently based on evidence of what interventions are likely to be most effective.
03/02/2022 - 07:26
A new £1 million fund has been established by the Scottish Government to support projects which look after the well-being of staff working in social care.
03/02/2022 - 07:17
CIPFA’s 2022 Financial Resilience Index shows that English local authority reserves have grown to £29 billion, up from £19 billion in 2019/2020.
03/02/2022 - 06:49
Michael Gove has published the government’s Levelling Up white paper setting out an ambitious blueprint to expand opportunities across the whole UK.
01/02/2022 - 15:15
A cross-party group of MPs has declared that Londoners must not be excluded from the benefits of the government’s levelling up plans.
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