Sector News

Welsh children in need as they start school with a lack of speech Popular charity, Save the Children, are calling for more speech and language support in Wales as more children than ever are starting school with worrying levels of speech and language development. The charity has found that almost 80%

40% of children in the UK are not regularly going to the dentist Shocking figures from the NHS show that at least 40% of children in the UK failed to see a dentist last year. This can be very damaging to a child’s health and well-being, leaving many children with

Father and GP campaigns for nursery to relax its rules on conjunctivitis A GP and father of twins has recently campaigned for a nursery to change their sickness policy with regards to conjunctivitis. Dr Finnikin pushed for the change in policy after his own toddler was sent home with the

How will Early Years providers and children in the UK be affected by Brexit? On 23rd June 2016 the country was divided with 52% of voters winning the decision for the United Kingdom to leave the EU. Brexit has made history but how will this decision impact on the Early Years

Will there be enough funded places available with the increase to 30 hours?   With the funded hours of childcare for all three and four year olds increasing from 15 hours to 30 hours next year, many children may find themselves losing out due to lack of free places. Many childcare