Working parents of children in England from nine months old will be eligible for 30 hours of free childcare a week from September 2025. This will require £1.8 billion in funding, with a further ...

Parents, particularly those on lower incomes, have felt the pinch of the cost of living crisis over the past few years, with many struggling to pay increased food and fuel costs, plus spiralling ...

I don’t like using excuses for Australia, particularly when there is clearly work to do in areas such as talent identification, but a world in which it has effectively become a fee-free nursery ...

Ministers have banned the use of the term “free childcare” to describe a key government policy as anger mounts over nursery fees. Tory Jeremy Hunt announced plans to give every child aged nine ...

with a historic major expansion to 30 free hours of childcare from the age of nine months from next September. To prepare the government plans to open thousands of new nursery classes in schools.

A parent has received compensation from his local council over ‘free’ nursery hours. He received a £667 payout after complaining his daughter’s nursery was charging additional fees for the free ...