Updated guidance clarifies which children and staff can continue to attend settings and extends practical steps to implementing effective social distancing.
The fall-out from coronavirus threatens to widen health inequalities in society.
The Welsh Government’s childcare offer is being re-directed to provide free care for the children of critical workers. Children who are considered vulnerable will also be included.
The UK’s second biggest nursery group says it ‘wants to play its own small part’ in supporting key workers by collaborating with local nannies, childminders and nurseries to come up with a solution to sourcing childcare cover.
New Labour leader Keir Starmer has made Rebecca Long-Bailey shadow education secretary in shadow cabinet.
A study from Liverpool Hope University highlights how very young children are able to gauge the abilities of their peers and act in their own best interests.
Flexibility to be applied for childcare settings staying partially open who may need to 'unfurlough' and 'refurlough' staff to cover, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Providers now have until 30 April to respond to Ofsted’s consultation on how it handles post-inspection complaints.
An in-depth inquiry will scrutinise the effect of coronavirus on all stages of education – from nurseries through to universities – with the aim of building greater resilience to deal with an emergency in the future.
The Scottish Parliament revokes the statutory duty to expand funded hours allowing local authorities to focus on responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
With new guidance being issued for self-employed people and updates on the job retention scheme, here’s a summary and links to official information to keep you up to date.
Chancellor tells self-employed ‘they have not been forgotten’ and launches new financial package worth 80 per cent of average monthly income.
Warning people not to visit a school or childcare setting if they have coronavirus symptoms and keeping classes as small as possible are ways to manage social distancing, the Government says.
Extensive new guidance has been issued by the Government which highlights ways settings can continue to support key children, including pooling resources with other settings and relaxing ratios.
As tens of thousands of registered childminders close their doors, the Chancellor’s latest briefing provides hope for financial support.
Chancellor unveils support for early years providers as they struggle to establish how many staff to keep on from today (Monday 23 March).
Nearly 7000 childminders have written to their local MPs calling for greater wage support for childminders following Chancellor Rishi Sunak announcement of a new 'coronavirus job retention scheme' which does not include the self-employed.
the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) has launched a COVID-19 closure survey to demonstrate to Government the devastating impact the forced closures across England and Wales will have on childminders.
Schools may have to open for up to a fifth of pupils based on the Government’s key worker guidelines.
Schools and childcare providers are calling for more clarity in the definition of ‘vulnerable children’ and which children should remain in early years provision or at school in the current crisis.
Following the Government’s announcement that schools and nurseries will close from Monday 23 March, sector organisations are pushing for a clearer definition of ‘key workers’, whose children will still need to be looked after.
Government has issued advice on how to provide free school meals as closures are set this Friday due to coronavirus outbreak.
The move to close nurseries and schools was revealed by the education secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday (Wednesday 19 March) with more details given by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his daily Coronavirus press conference.
Chancellor announces that nurseries' business rates will be suspended due to coronavirus.
More than a third of parents who return to work make a financial loss or just break even due to the unaffordable cost of childcare, mother’s rights campaign survey finds.
