The Education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, is to say that she wants the 30 hours of funded early education to be extended to low-income families.

An expert group who will help to shape, support and advise on delivering the expanded childcare offer in Wales, have met for the first time today.

The Government risks failing families with its expanded childcare offer unless it urgently invests in the workforce to deliver it, Save the Children has warned.

Average parent-paid fees for early years places increased steeply between 2023 and 2024, new statistics published today by the Department for Education (DfE) show.

London Economics were commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to undertake a comprehensive review of the childcare sector, using information from the DfE’s 2024 Survey of Childcare and Earl...

Few things in life are equal, but each day every one of us has 24 hours of time to use. How  time is best spent has been the subject of an active public debate in recent years, and this question has b...

London Economics were commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to investigate the state of childcare providers’ finances and the cost of childcare to parents, using information from the 2023...

We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.