Children are less ready for school than five years ago, say school leaders
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FCT School readiness Primary schools Reception Language Speech
  • Sep 5, 2017
Relief for Welsh parents as holiday childcare prices drop
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FCT Wales School holidays Holiday childcare Fees
  • Jul 20, 2017
Holiday childcare price hike and shortage increase double blow leaves parents on the ropes
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FCT Holiday childcare Fees
  • Jul 20, 2017
Plateauing holiday childcare costs remain high for working parents
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FCT Holiday childcare Scotland Fees
  • Jul 20, 2017
Parents face rising costs and holiday childcare shortages
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Nursery World School holidays Childcare Finances FCT Parents Special needs Supervision
  • Jul 20, 2017
Complete our survey on school readiness
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NAHT School readiness FCT Survey
  • Jul 12, 2017
Planned increase in academisation needs careful monitoring to protect quality and availability of early education, report warns
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FCT Academies Childcare Early years Ofsted ratings Primary schools Funding
  • Jun 29, 2017
Family and Childcare Trust appoints Chief Executive Ellen Broomé
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FCT Leaders Leadership Early years Childcare
  • Jun 28, 2017
Family and Childcare Trust responds to the High Court’s ruling on the Revised Benefit Cap
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FCT Childcare Parents Social mobility Employment
  • Jun 22, 2017
Family and Childcare Trust urges next government to make childcare work for families
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FCT Nurseries Childcare Gender inequality Social mobility Early years Free childcare SEND Special needs
  • Apr 21, 2017
Response to decision to hold a general election on 8 June 2017
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FCT Politics Parents Childcare Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Apr 19, 2017
Family and Childcare Trust appoints joint Chief Executives
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FCT Leaders Leadership Nurseries Childcare Early years
  • Apr 4, 2017
One in ten nursery workers paid below the minimum wage
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FCT Nurseries Early years Pay Staff Childcare Funding Free childcare Disadvantaged
  • Mar 17, 2017
Sector outraged over claims that many nurseries are breaking Living Wage rules
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Nursery World Early years Nursery Pay FCT DfE
  • Mar 17, 2017
Daily roundup 17 March: Nursery wages row, school funding, and improvement efforts
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CYPN Nursery Pay Funding Early years Staff FCT EPI
  • Mar 17, 2017
Illegal low pay for 20,000 nursery staff - claim
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BBC Nursery Early years Childcare FCT IoE Pay
  • Mar 17, 2017
All families should have access to early years education
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NAHT Early years Nursery FCT Childcare Disadvantaged pupils School places Funding Teacher training
  • Mar 6, 2017
Cost of childcare remains too high for parents, charity warns
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Nursery World Childcare Nursery Early years Childcare places FCT 30-hour childcare Free childcare
  • Mar 2, 2017
Scottish parents face childcare costs hike
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FCT Childcare Early years Nursery Scotland Free childcare SEN Disabled
  • Mar 2, 2017
Relief for Welsh parents as childcare prices drop – but not enough childcare available for working parents
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FCT Wales Childcare Nursery Early years Childcare places Free childcare SEN Disabled
  • Mar 2, 2017
Sky high London childcare costs are a third more than national average
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FCT Childcare London Nursery Early years Childcare places Disabled 30-hour childcare Free childcare
  • Mar 2, 2017
Hard working parents torpedoed by stubbornly high childcare costs
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FCT Childcare Nursery Early years 30-hour childcare Free childcare
  • Mar 2, 2017
Response to Joseph Roundtree Foundation and Loughborough University’s Minimum income standard report
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FCT Childcare Disadvantaged pupils Nursery
  • Feb 15, 2017
Quality of childcare put at risk by extending free hours of childcare
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FCT Childcare Free childcare 30-hour childcare Nursery
  • Feb 8, 2017
Councils uncertain about delivery of 30-hours free childcare pledge, survey finds
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PoliticsHome Nursery Childcare Free childcare 30-hour childcare FCT LGA DfE
  • Feb 8, 2017
Childcare provision under risk as councils funding runs out
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Express Nursery Childcare Free childcare 30-hour childcare FCT
  • Feb 8, 2017
'30 hours at risk of not living up to parents' expectations'
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Nursery World Nursery Childcare Free childcare 30-hour childcare FCT FIS SEND Disadvantaged pupils Funding
  • Feb 8, 2017
Many councils unsure over extended childcare provision
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Mail Nursery Childcare Free childcare 30-hour childcare FCT
  • Feb 8, 2017
Response to IEA's Getting the State out of Pre-School and Childcare report
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FCT Family and Childcare Trust IEA Childcare Nursery
  • Feb 6, 2017
Parent co-op nurseries may be the answer to low-cost quality childcare
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Nursery World Nursery Co-operatives Childcare NEF FCT Family and Childcare Trust
  • Jan 26, 2017
'Patchy' local offer restricting SEND children's access to childcare
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Nursery World Nursery SAND Childcare FCT Family and Childcare Trust Disabled
  • Jan 26, 2017
Families with disabled children left in the dark on childcare
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FCT Family and Childcare Trust Childcare Disabled SEND
  • Jan 26, 2017
Families with disabled children 'missing out on childcare'
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CYPN Childcare Nursery SEND Disabled FCT Funding
  • Jan 26, 2017
Special deal for NAHT members starting the Families First Quality Award
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NAHT Academic performance Standards FCT Parental engagement
  • Jan 17, 2017
Response to Secretary of State for Education's ministerial statement on early years funding
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FCT Funding EYFS Nursery
  • Dec 1, 2016
Charity calls for £111m to boost early years quality
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Nursery World Nursery FCT Funding Free childcare SENCOs
  • Nov 17, 2016
Action-plan for quality leap in childcare revealed
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Family and Childcare Trust Nursery Childcare Funding FCT SENCOs
  • Nov 17, 2016
Response to BCC's survey on childcare
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FCT Childcare BCC
  • Nov 14, 2016
Response to DfE's response to the early years funding consultation
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FCT DfE EYFS Nursery Funding
  • Nov 7, 2016
Our analysis and response to the DfE’s early years funding consultation
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Early years FCT
  • Sep 15, 2016