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AN INITIATIVE to invest in more than 600 apprenticeships in the early years sector is being spearheaded by the Co-op.
The retail giant, along with other members of The Royal Foundation’s business taskforce for early childhood, is targeting employers across the private, public, voluntary and community sectors.
Its aim is to help deliver the workforce required to staff the creation of 3,000 nurseries across England.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK