Vanessa Clarke Education Correspondent BBC “We have the one of the most expensive systems in the world… today I want to reform our childcare system”. These words, spoken by the then-chancellor Jeremy Hunt in the 2023 Spring Budget, were a beacon of hope for thousands of parents paying an average of almost £15,000 a year...
Hayley Hassall, Eleanor Layhe and Alan Haslam BBC England Investigations Watch Genevieve’s mother, Katie, explain how her nine-month-old daughter was killed at a now-closed nursery There have been almost 20,000 reports of serious childcare incidents in nurseries in England in the past five years, the BBC has found. That is an average of about 75...
Every Uber driver in the UK will be eligible for 20 hours of free childcare under a new scheme intended to get more women driving taxis. They will be able to use the allowance through a nannying and babysitting app for the rest of 2025. “We really, really would like to attract more female drivers...