Early years sector leaders are warning that the government's focus on funding childcare for working families risks further worsening the disadvantage attainment gap after official figures showed this ...

Early years campaigners are making urgent calls for professional reform after a latest research found a risk of services being undermined by a poor quality workforce.

Reforms to local authority inspections of children’s services (ILACS) will include the removal of the single-word overall effectiveness rating from April 2026, the inspectorate Ofsted has confirmed.

The new Initial Health Assessment (IHA) Delivery Standards recently published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child ...

Numbers of foster carers and places dropped this year, continuing a downward trend following the pandemic, latest official figures show.

Children’s sector leaders have welcomed the government's decision to end the two-child benefit cap, announced by Chancellor ...

The controversial two-child benefit cap is to be scrapped from April 2026, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has ...

The quality of children’s services across England has continued to improve over the last year, according to latest Ofsted data.

Nearly three quarters of 13–17-year-olds in a poll reported seeing real-world violence on social media in the past year – ...

To address the shortage of foster carers and adopters the government must confront the gap between the rhetoric and reality ...

London’s universal free school meals programme is generating more than £11.5 million in extra funding for settings every year ...

Advice on how to bid for a short-term grant that funds communication and learning equipment for families caring for a ...