Jo Parkes looks at the impact on settings from the increase in children requiring more support from staff, and how they are navigating the best ways to help parents.
An open letter calling for the Government to increase early years funding and improve its communication with parents has been signed by LEYF, the Fatherhood Institute and campaigner Kate Dyson of The Motherload.
‘Circumstance for childhood in this country today is utterly, uttlery dire’, the first children’s commissioner for England, Sir Al Aynsley-Green told delegates attending LEYF’s annual Margaret Horn debate.