This is bbc news. The headlines. Three people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of five migrants in the English Channel on tuesday. In a world of rising new threats the uk and germany announce stronger Defence Cooperation to counter the threat from russia. President biden confirms that more Military Assistance will be sent to ukraine within days after the Us Senate Approves a long awaited aid bill. Canada is hosting talks aimed at reaching global deal to end plastics pollution. It is time for a reaching global deal to end plastics pollution. It is time for a round up of all the sports news. Lets go over to the sports centre. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Liverpool could have found their man to replacejurgen klopp. The club are set to open talks with feyenoord over their manager arne slot. Klopp announced injanuary he would leave anfield at the end of the season and slot, who led feyenoord to the eredivisie title last season, has emerged as a candidate who fits liverp
The Department for Education has revealed plans to pilot the use of surplus school spaces to offer childcare provision as part of its expansion of funded hours.
Most early years providers have not changed the number of places they offer, despite an additional 85,000 places being needed for the full roll out of the expanded offer.
Around 85,000 new childcare places will be needed by September 2025 for the expansion of funded childcare for working parents in England, the Government has estimated.