The NDNA issued the advice following the success of its early years network in Sheffield, which secured a 4p funding increase after identifying an £800,000 underspend by the city council for its early...
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The call comes from the House of Commons education committee following its 18-month inquiry into support for children with SEND.
While supportive of the SEND reforms through the Children and Families...
A new online tool aims to assess the extent that organisational factors and conditions support the wellbeing of staff.
An inspection carried out over a two-week period in September found that Durham County Council had taken "swift and decisive action to strengthen services" with "solid improvements" in many services areas,...
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said every local authority in England will be required to support families fleeing their abusers in this way, under new laws coming into force through the Domestic...
The LGA warned only a "properly resourced, integrated" strategy would help stem the "steady decline" in the number of health visitors over the past four years.
The membership organisation said it had...
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by Barnardo's revealed that 1,202 looked-after children were missing out on their legal right to be matched with a visitor, which the charity refers to...
National Crime Agency statistics show the number of council referrals of suspected child victims of modern slavery in England to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) has risen from 127 in 2014 to 1,152...
Former children's minister Edward Timpson, who chairs the panel, said the panel had been notified of a "significant number" of serious child safeguarding cases which raise issues that are complex and of...
The Department for Education's Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Profile results show that 71.8 per cent of children achieved a good level of development in 2019.
This is a slight increase of 0.3...