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Workers in healthcare, education and justice are battling crumbling systems. They told us what actions they want to see from the new government

Childcare features prominently in both major parties’ plans for work and personal finance. Keir Starmer wants to make early-years provision as universal as possible while the Conservatives claim they’re already transforming childcare and increasing funding to both boost children’s development and get mothers back to work.

Unions and headteachers say party must make retention of staff as high a priority as recruitment

A Montessori school which has been teaching children in East London for the last 30 years is at risk of closing down in a matter of weeks after an investor pulled out last minute.

A nursery in Eltham has been told to improve after being described as ‘chaotic’ by Ofsted with toddlers left feeling ‘frustrated’.

Exclusive: ‘This latest childminder numbers debacle is yet more evidence that the Tories offered a pledge without a delivery plan,’ says shadow education secretary

Do schools close on election day? Parents will need to make plans for election day if schools will be shut - here's everything we know.

Byron Court Primary School will be closed for two days next month

A North London primary school is set to close for a further five days over the next two weeks after staff agreed to take strike action against government plans to turn it into an academy.