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10 April

• Alliance launches school-based nursery FoI investigation

2 April

• Alliance reacts to allocation of first phase of school-based nursery funding 

26 March

20 March

• Alliance calls for sector support as Coram's annual childcare survey shows disadvantaged children and those with special education needs are most likely to struggle to access provision

18 March

• Alliance slams exclusion of private and voluntary early years providers from National Insurance cost support 

13 March

• Parents set to face shortages of government-funded early years places and rising costs as nurseries and childminders face "perfect storm" of government policy changes, new survey finds 

21 February

• Alliance urges government to address early years funding issues as updated charging guidance is released

3 February

• Alliance responds to new Ofsted inspections proposals 

2 February 

• Alliance welcomes Centre for Early Childhood framework on social and emotional development 

30 January 

• Alliance responds to Kindred² School Readiness Survey showing a third of reception-aged children struggled to share or play with others, and a quarter are not toilet trained

29 January

• Alliance prepares to celebrate SEND at two new Connect Roadshows in Nottingham and Bristol

28 January

• Alliance responds to introduction of experience-based route guidance and government consultation response

15 January

• Alliance calls for early years to be central to SEND reform as Public Accounts Committee on SEND reform is published

13 January 

• Conflicting government policy on National Insurance risks leaving early years providers "stuck between a rock and a hard place", Alliance warns. 

8 January

• Alliance responds to IFS annual education spending report