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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…

Youth Services

  The end of the summer holidays is fast approaching, have we seen the final acts of youth services as clubs and activities struggle to continue.   Youngsters in King’s Lynn park, Norfolk….

Charities, Community Groups
and where to from here…

  Charities face closures as local authorities slash funding, making the delivery of community projects somewhere between hard and impossible. ‘Acevo (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations) had already shown that…