The Latest Breaking News from the Early Years Alliance

Why childcare providers will be forced to limit funded places and increase prices

The Early Years Alliance has warned childcare providers face a ‘perfect storm of challenges’

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

Childcare blow for hard-up parents as survey shows most nurseries plan to cut funded places

Nurseries face ‘perfect storm of challenges’ due to national insurance and minimum wage rises and ‘many will not be able to survive’, charity warns

Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2025

Rachel Reeves’ Budget ‘a recipe for total disaster’ for nurseries, Tories claim

Shadow education minister Neil O’Brien said up to four in 10 early years providers are expected to close as a result of the NI increase.

Evening Standard · Dec 9, 2024

Free childcare plan in chaos as funding for Tories’ key pledge unravels

Parents face missing out on free support at eleventh hour due to funding disarray

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2024

Government admits criticised new childcare policy is ‘no easy task’ to implement

Exclusive: As the government rolls out registration for new childcare hours, Labour warns Tories’ pledges are ‘meaningless’ to parents unable to find childcare

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2024

The true cost of childcare: how much parents have to spend in England – interactive calculator

This tool will reveal how much it could cost you to raise a child

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

Tory plan to expand free childcare is ‘undeliverable’, nurseries in England warn

Survey reveals large numbers of childcare providers will not increase capacity because of staff, cost or space concerns

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2023

Nurseries and childminders back Ofsted shakeup as stressed staff suffer 'sleepless nights'

The watchdog has bit hit by a major backlash after headteacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January whilst awaiting an inspection judgement which downgraded her school

Daily Mirror · May 5, 2023