08/01/2025: Government’s early years funding hikes fail to cover rising costs, IFS warns
Increases to funding for the early years sector are failing to consider the rising cost pressures that providers face, an Institute of Fiscal Studies report is warning.
08/01/2025: Cooper vows to make child abuse reporting mandatory
The government is to introduce laws that make it an offence to fail to report child sexual abuse concerns, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed.
08/01/2025: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill explained
Tim Spencer-Lane sets out how the legislation will reform the provision, regulation and staffing of children’s social care in England.