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Guy, Viki and Baby Leon, Landmatters Permaculture Community, Devon as the young couple talk about their journey to off grid living.

Couple quit rat race for a commune - and say they’d ‘never go back’

Plans have been submitted to build a new early years children’s nursery at Minskip near Boroughbridge.

New children’s nursery planned near farm and shop in North Yorkshire

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced 30 hours of free childcare for one and two year olds

Budget 2023: Free childcare for under 5s explained

Katy Hunter is pictured.

Cost of living crisis: Nursery fees ‘forcing women to quit their jobs’

Tongue of a child with scarlet fever - strawberry tongue.

Back to school advice as scarlet fever and Covid cases remain high

You are still able to form a childcare bubble during the lockdown (Shutterstock)

What is a childcare bubble and how do I form one?

Where does the law stand over children in care this Christmas?

Your legal rights over child access this Christmas – Ellie Hampson-Jones

Don’t miss the HMRC Self Assessment tax return deadline - everything you need to...

Most parents are still cautious about sending their child back to nursery. Pic: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Nurseries are at risk of collapse due to 'disgraceful' treatment from Government

Karen Simpkin, owner of Sunflower Children's Centre in Sheffield. Picture by Simon Hulme

Sheffield nursery owner helps expose ‘endemic’ £60m under-spending on pre-school...

Laura McClure has written about juggling a career with a band and bringing up two children.

Reverend and the Makers' Laura McClure on the challenges of being a 'mum on tour...

'Tax free childcare' can be worth thousands of pounds.

Martin Lewis: This is how you could claim thousands of pounds to help with child...

Purnima Tanaku, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

Free 30-hour childcare trial begins in York

Should there be greater flexibility over school holidays and term dates?

YP Letters: All-year-round schools fit for the 21st century

Ground breaking event at Kiln Park, Allerton Bywater. Picture: Shaun Flannery

Industrial scheme starts on site with majority space under offer

Baroness Haleh Afshar in the House of Lords

XX marks the spot

Philip Booth: A Queen’s Speech wishlist to set us free to prosper

Ryan Bourne: The folly of Labour’s interventionism

Nick Clegg: Childcare will add up to a fairer society

FTracey Robbins says thousands are trapped on benefits with no way out

How the benefit safety net turned into the welfare trap
Want to know what it’s like to be reliant on benefits? Ask Tracey Robbin. She also knows that today there’s is no easy escape from the welfare cycle.

400,000 families in poverty ‘have traditional breadwinner’

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls plays with three year old Connor Felton at the Roundabout Children's Centre in Brighton

Labour pledges free childcare for parents working part-time

George Osborne plays with Titas (centre) and Taylor (left), during a visit to a nursery in Hammersmith, London.

Childcare voucher scheme ‘is unfair to stay-at-home mums’

Chancellor George Osborne

Osborne unveils £1,200 vouchers to aid childcare

Professor Cathy Nutbrown, University of Sheffield

New plan for early years teaching ‘insulting’

Jayne Dowle: Rich boys cannot understand life on squeezed incomes

Parents try to solve the conundrum of affordable childcare

Women officers set to abandon police

PM seeking cheaper and better childcare

‘Affordable’ childcare shake-up urged

Big Lottery grant of £150,000 helps mission to link generations
GRANDPARENTS in Sheffield who look after their grandchildren are to benefit from new family learning activities after a grant of £150,000 from the Big Lottery fund.

Charities issue jobs alert over childcare costs rise

Childcare vital to curb youth crime says top officer

Britons just want to have fun, reveals research

Childcare improved by bringing in families

Childcare improved by bringing in families