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CMA opens probe into childcare sector | Competition & Markets Authority
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (624+ words) Review will consider the challenges families face finding suitable childcare as well as pressures on providers in England. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market study into early years education and childcare services in England to assess…...
Expert group meet to shape Wales's universal childcare offer | Welsh Government
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (472+ words) An expert group who will help to shape, support and advise on delivering the expanded childcare offer in Wales, have met for the first time today. The Deputy First Minister, Sioned Williams, chaired the inaugural meeting of the Expansion of…...
Welsh Government accelerates funded childcare expansion with new funding | Welsh Government
2+ week, 1+ day ago (576+ words) Hundreds more families in Wales will be able to access funded childcare thanks to a "55 million investment announced today. The Welsh Government has confirmed a "55 million investment in childcare, including the rollout of funded childcare to more 2-year-olds across Wales…...
FM and DFM set out plans for most generous childcare offer since devolution | Welsh Government
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (474+ words) The First Minister and the Deputy First Minister of Wales have visited an integrated children's centre in Merthyr Tydfil today, highlighting the Welsh Government's ambition to expand funded childcare for children across Wales. Rhun ap Iorwerth and Sioned Williams met…...
Children in care with complex medical needs are stuck in hospital | Children's Commissioner
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (986+ words) Throughout my time as Commissioner, I have met children across the country who speak to me about what they love, what they want from life and the challenges they face. I have met children who have experienced severe adversity, witnessed…...
New school nurseries to help cut childcare costs in poorest areas | Department for Education
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1190+ words) Over 300 schools to open or expand nurseries, creating thousands of places, targeting areas childcare gaps and helping families save up to "8, 000 a year. In the latest drive by the government to bear down on the cost of living, thousands more…...
New vision for Kinship care | Scottish Government
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (618+ words) Strengthened focus on family group decision-making ahead of Bill vote. Clearer access to advice and support, including better information on financial help and allowances are central to a newly-published national "vision" for supporting Kinship Carers who look after children who…...
New package of support for parents | Scottish Government
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (271+ words) New'support'for parents to increase their incomes'and reduce the burden of everyday costs, on top of existing work,'will'help to keep'approximately 100, 000 children out of poverty in 2026-27. It builds on'existing Scottish Government'action which'has already reduced relative child poverty rates in Scotland to'the…...