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The latest draft of the NPPF includes both early years and post-16 education, meaning local authorities will have to give ‘great weight’ to such considerations when reviewing planning applications.
Official statistics show that the number of 2 year olds registered for their entitlement of 15 hours’ childcare has declined from almost 150,000 in 2019 to just under 116,000 today.
According to a series of Freedom of Information requests by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), more than 95% of the funds have yet to be spent.
The new Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said the roll out will not be the ‘sunlit uplands’ the Tories promised and admitted there are ‘enormous gaps to fill’.
Here, Childminding UK shares what professional love looks like and the benefits it has on children's brain development in the early years.