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12 December 2024

• Alliance responds to new DfE statistics showing sharp rises in early years fees

10 December 2024

• Alliance responds to confirmation of early years funding rates, EYPP increase and expansion grant

9 December 2024

• Alliance reacts to research showing only one-third of most economically disadvantaged families access early years places

5 December 2024

• Alliance responds to government's Plan for Change speech, including its aim of a record level of children reaching the expected level of development
• Alliance comments on аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½±'s annual report 

20 November 2024

• Alliance responds to latest аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± sector statistics showing a continued drop in early years providers 

19 November 2024

• Alliance reacts to research showing government plans to expand school-based provision are 'unlikely to work'

12 November 2024

• Budget 2024: Parent set to face rising early years costs and setting closures as National Insurance and minimum wage increases push sector to the brink, new survey warns 

4 November 2024

• Alliance comments on appointment of Laura Trott as shadow education secretary 

30 October 2024

• Budget 2024: Alliance reacts to rises in employer National Insurance and national and living wages 

27 October 2024

• Budget 2024: Alliance responds to news that spending on early years priorities will be protected by government

18 October 2024

• Alliance comments on study highlighting barriers to take-up of early entitlements for disadvantaged families 

17 October 2024

• Alliance responds to launch of school-based nursery funding and planned clarification on early years charges

16 October 2024

• Alliance responds to аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± and ONS data showing early years availability has fallen since 2020

7 October 2024

• Alliance responds to research showing a third of working families have had to reduce working hours due to difficulties accessing early years places

25 September 2024

• Alliance reacts to education secretary's speech at the Labour Conference

12 September 2024

• Alliance responds to research showing almost a third of the population live in a 'childcare desert'

3 September 2024

2 September 2024

• Scrapping of single-word аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± judgements for early years providers must happen "as soon as possible", says Alliance

• Alliance warns of expansion uncertainty without further support as second phase begins

5 August 2024

• Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for better pay and value from government as 78% of settings struggle to recruit ahead of the rollout of phase two of the extended offer, new survey reveals

25 July 2024

• Alliance responds to DfE survey showing impact of early years cost and availability challenges on families

16 July 2024

• Alliance responds to EPI report showing widening of early years disadvantage gap between 2019 and 2023

11 July 2024

• Alliance responds to аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± sector statistics showing a continued drop in early years providers 
• Alliance comments as DfE statistics show series low in two-year-olds registered for 15-hour entitlement

10 July 2024

• Alliance responds to appointment of Stephen Morgan as minister with responsibility for early years 

5 July 2024

• Alliance responds to appointment of Bridget Phillipson as education secretary
• Alliance reacts to general election result 

2 July 2024

• Alliance announces details of next Alliance Connect Roadshow in Bradford

• Alliance responds to research from the Early Education and Childcare Coalition showing two-thirds of parents of under-fives are unconvinced by party early years pledges

27 June 2024

• Alliance responds to Coram research on early entitlement expansion 

25 June 2024

• Alliance launches new online training and CPD hub

20 June 2024

• Alliance CEO to call for focus on wellbeing of early years workforce 
• Alliance responds to EPI research highlighting lack of manifesto commitments to address the early years disadvantage gap

13 June 2024

• Alliance responds to Labour's election manifesto

11 June 2024

• Alliance responds to Conservative's election manifesto 

10 June 2024

• Alliance responds to Lib Dems early years and childcare proposals 

9 June 2024

• Alliance responds to Labour's plans to create more than 3,000 new school-based nurseries

6 June 2024

• Alliance reacts to Early Education and Childcare Coalition research showing most voters want next government to priortise early education as much as primary school

4 June 2024

• Equity of early years access must be a priority for the next government, Alliance warns following new аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½±/ONS data 

28 May 2024

• Alliance comments on Public Account Committee concerns over extended early entitlement offer 

23 May 2024

• Alliance launches fourth National Week of Play centred on using play to celebrate the magic moments throughout childhood

21 May 2024

• Alliance responds to Royal Foundation Business Taskforce report on the impact of investing in the early years on the economy

10 May 2024

• Alliance reacts as applications for second phase of expansion open 

24 April 2024

• Alliance responds to NAO report on government preparations for early entitlement expansion 

19 April 2024

• Alliance responds to government statistics on rollout of early entitlement expansion
• Alliance responds to DfE providers survey showing most providers have not increased places ahead of the expansion

8 April 2024

• Alliance responds to new IFS research on positive impact of Sure Start

1 April 2024

• Alliance warns that expansion will be unworkable without further support as first phase of rollout begins

25 March 2024

• Alliance responds to Pregnant Then Screwed research showing parents will still struggle to access and afford early years places under expansion

19 March 2024

• Alliance responds to Coram's annual Childcare Costs Survey 
• Minds Still Matter: Alliance names inspiring line-up for online Annual Conference 

15 March 2024

• Alliance responds to launch of childminder recruitment and retention consultation 
• Alliance responds to confirmation of when parent applications for September rollout opens

6 March 2024

• Budget 2024: Alliance reacts to early years funding rates increase

22 February 2024

• Early years providers unable to meet demand for new places under extended entitlement offer, new survey reveals

16 February 2024

• Alliance responds to research showing a 146.2% surge in early educator vacancies compared with pre-pandemic levels

2 February 2024

• Alliance responds to launch of government early years recruitment campaign which includes £1,000 cash incentive trial

30 January 2024

• Alliance launches new publication to develop and implement an effective safeguarding culture 

29 January 2024

• Alliance criticises exclusion of early years in Education Committee's аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± inquiry findings 

25 January 2024

• Alliance responds to Coram research showing council fear over lack of early years places

24 January 2024

• Alliance responds to Sutton Trust early years policy briefing

22 January 2024

• Eligibility codes only part of the problem, Alliance warns as DfE announces workaround for parents accessing new two-year-old funding offer
• Government 'in denial' over scale of early years crisis, Alliance warns following Urgent Question on two-year-old funding roll-out

19 January 2024

• аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± must include early years in inspection reforms, Alliance warns following Prevention of future deaths report response 
• Alliance announced line-up for second annual virtual Family Festival 

16 January 2024

• Alliance responds to London Assembly report on early education and childcare in London

2 January 2024

• Parents set for disappointment as applications for new early entitlement offer open, Alliance warns

• Alliance criticises аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø¿ª½± decision not to pause inspections in early years settings