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Category: Children’s Centres

Childcare Providers and Wrap-around Care in Schools

In  Children and Young People Now , 07.12.15 – a new announcements on childcare and schools. ‘Childcare providers could be given the right to apply to deliver wraparound care using school facilities…’, Prime…

Carmel Littleton appointed as Head of Children’s Services in London Borough of Islington

Carmel Littleton has been appointed as the new director of children’s services in London Borough Islington, following on from Eleanor Schooling who has moved to Ofsted. Carmel Littleton (Image: courtesy of LBI), has…

Brent Parent Champions

Very close to Wembley Stadium is Brent Civic Centre. It really is an impressive council building and hosts a broad array of services, with the focus clearly on community and diversity. Wembley library…

Increase in childcare entitlement from 15 – 30 hours per week.

Children and Young People Now have published the latest from the government in doubling free universal childcare entitlement. The government is to fast-track legislation to double free universal childcare entitlement to 30 hours…

Parent Champions’ Training for Family and Childcare Trust

Parent Champions’ is a volunteering project established by the Family and Childcare Trust and has become hugely successful in the last seven years.   As one of their trainers for the project I…

2 year olds… Are we ready?

Free Entitlement for 2 Year Olds From September 2014 the number of 2 year old children being able to access funded places increases to 40% , reaching out to those who are most…

Labour plans for universal childcare

Ed Milliband has pledged in his new year message to pursue the policy of universal childcare for all pre-school children and to make childcare a priority, if elected as Prime Minister.(Guardian 30 December…

Happy Christmas

Child Rights Partners

‘Children and young people are to be involved in designing and delivering services aimed at them through a partnership between Unicef UK and six local authorities.’ Children and Young People Now, reported this…

Summer redesign…

As the summer holidays become a memory in 2013 we have brightened our Autumn reading by installing and loading a fresh new design and layout for ChangeThinking, the news and reflection website for…

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