Summer holiday childcare in UK now costs £1,000 a child, research finds
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Maggie Ross obituary
June 2024
Rachel Reeves vows to close gender pay gap ‘once and for all’ if she is chancellor
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor says she wants to shatter ‘last glass ceiling in politics’ and improve women’s position
Labour’s plan for nursery places is great – in theory
Letters: Iain Dalton urges Leeds’s Labour-led council to reconsider nursery closures, while Anne-Louise Crocker and Emily Brookes wonder where new staff for the promised 100,000 extra places will come from
Labour urged to confirm how it will find staff for 100,000 new childcare places
Party’s proposals involve about £140m to refurbish school classrooms, but nothing extra to increase staffing
May 2024
The Guardian view on private equity and public services: this trend needs reversing
Toddlers ‘sold out’ to balance books of childcare bill, English nursery providers say
Support parents who choose to care for their children at home
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Childcare vouchers firm won’t refund £2,800 accrued since pandemic struck
Nursery death of baby Genevieve Meehan raises troubling questions
All parents, working or not, should have access to childcare, say experts in England
April 2024
England childcare scheme may struggle to deliver places, finds ‘damning’ report
The expansion of free childcare has been a Tory-fied mess of a bright Labour idea
Polly Toynbee
Expansion plans require 85,000 more childcare places by September 2025
Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it
Terri White
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Tuesday briefing: How much of a difference will the new childcare provision for two-year-olds make?
Childcare in England failing and falling behind much of world, charity says
Labour in a bind over much-needed childcare reform
Reviving Sure Start would be a vote-winner for Labour
‘Gift of hope and confidence’: parents recall how Sure Start was a lifeline
