The government’s decision to authorise the use of Pava spray in young offender institutions (YOI) will be challenged in the ...

Concerns over the government’s proposed removal of ethnicity as a factor in local authority funding settlements have been ...

Hundreds of adoptive parents feel their child’s needs are not being met because of cuts to the Adoption and Special ...

A target of creating 4,000 more school-based nursery places this September has been exceeded, the Department for Education ...

A decline in post-pandemic school readiness has been reported by three-quarters of academy trust leaders who responded to a ...

The early years workforce continues to face substantial recruitment and retention challenges despite recent growth in staff ...

Children’s rights campaigners are continuing to raise concerns about plans to allow use of the incapacitant chemical spray ...

Two grants worth tens of thousands of pounds are available for research projects that capture the experiences of ethnic ...

A range of changes that strengthen child safety and clarify provider responsibilities across early years settings come into ...

At Dartington, we think that a recipe for a Best Start in Life strategy that is meaningful, responsive to the diverse needs of local communities and sustainable has four key ingredients.

A scheme to fund international study trips for children's services professionals has opened a new round of applications.

Research from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) think-tank predicts that better-off parents will be the main beneficiaries of the government’s funded childcare offer for working families, which ...