by admin | Oct 7, 2026 | childcare, childcare costs, Childcare Funding Crisis, early years education, free childcare, SEN Childcare, Uncategorized
Imagine you send your nine-month-old baby to nursery. She can’t talk. She can’t walk. She can’t tell you what happened to her today. EVERYTHING she learns about whether the world is safe comes from the adult holding her. So here’s the question. Who...
by admin | Aug 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Should the Government Be Investigating… the Government? The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is currently consulting on whether the Government’s use of the term ‘free childcare’ could be misleading to parents. On the surface, that sounds like a...
by admin | Jun 4, 2026 | childcare, childcare costs, Childcare Funding Crisis, early years education, free childcare, SEN Childcare, Uncategorized
Mind the Funding Gap You have all been told that your nursery place is ‘free’. But there is a problem and parents need to listen or risk losing their setting’s ability to remain in the scheme. Imagine that the government decides that a burger and chips can only ever...
by admin | May 28, 2026 | childcare, childcare costs, Childcare Funding Crisis, early years education, free childcare, SEN Childcare, Uncategorized
COMPLAINT TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATIONRegarding: Early Years Funding Rate Methodology, Failure of the Public Sector EqualityDuty, and Flawed Evidence Base Submitted by: Early Years Providers — EnglandDate: May 2026 The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MPSecretary of State...
by admin | May 21, 2026 | childcare, childcare costs, Childcare Funding Crisis, early years education, free childcare, SEN Childcare, Uncategorized
There is a small campaign in Australia to defund daycare and give the money to mothers instead. One of the arguments is, “Have you seen the calibre of people working in daycare?” Putting aside the rights and wrongs and practicalities of the argument, this should be a...
