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Childcare features prominently in both major parties’ plans for work and personal finance. Keir Starmer wants to make early-years provision as universal as possible while the Conservatives claim they’re already transforming childcare and increasing funding to both boost children’s development and get mothers back to work.

With the general election taking place this week, this is everything parents need to know about each party's proposed education policies

Exclusive: Shadow health secretary discusses plans for waiting lists and patient safety if Labour wins election

Lack of funds is a big issue in state schools, with experts wanting Labour to be bolder with its spending plans

From Labour’s free school breakfast clubs to the Lib Dems’ focus on social care, what do those who work in these areas think of what’s promised?

Unions and headteachers say party must make retention of staff as high a priority as recruitment

A Montessori school which has been teaching children in East London for the last 30 years is at risk of closing down in a matter of weeks after an investor pulled out last minute.

A nursery in Eltham has been told to improve after being described as ‘chaotic’ by Ofsted with toddlers left feeling ‘frustrated’.

Exclusive: ‘This latest childminder numbers debacle is yet more evidence that the Tories offered a pledge without a delivery plan,’ says shadow education secretary

Do schools close on election day? Parents will need to make plans for election day if schools will be shut - here's everything we know.

Byron Court Primary School will be closed for two days next month