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Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

All newly qualified Level 2 and 3 entrants to the early years workforce must have a paediatric first-aid (PFA) certificate within three months of starting work in order to be included in ratios.

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

| Nursery World

The new apprenticeship funding system could result in lower wages for employees, a think tank has claimed.

Level 3 consultation generates huge response

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Monday, November 28, 2016

| Nursery World

A consultation on literacy and numeracy qualification requirements for Level 3, due to close today, had received more than 3,000 responses last week.

DfE consults on Level 3 skills requirements

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Saturday, November 5, 2016

| Nursery World

The sector is urged to respond to a new consultation on the Level 3 literacy and numeracy requirements.

Apprentice funding cuts ‘hit poor’

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Monday, October 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The young poor are bearing the brunt of apprenticeship funding cuts, early years training providers have warned.

Final apprenticeships funding rates: Cuts of up to a third overall

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Plans to slash funding for early years apprentices have been upheld by the Government, despite an outcry.

Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Sector leaders are urging the Department for Education (DfE) to delay finalising its proposed funding reforms for early years apprenticeships in favour of a more ‘joined-up’ approach.

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to prove it. Hannah Crown speaks to a sector in crisis

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

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Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

| Nursery World

The sector has responded boldly to the Government’s review of the red tape burdening early years provision, amid fears of a ‘tipping point’.

Experts highlight parenting class mistakes

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

A government-funded study published days after the Prime Minister pledged to roll out parenting classes to all, has reported the scheme will fail without proper financial backing.

Tax credit cut to hit early years workers hard

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

| Nursery World

As the Government faced a revolt in the House of Lords with peers voting to delay cuts to tax credits, a new analysis shows nursery nurses would be among those in jobs hardest hit from next April.

Sick pay costing nurseries thousands of pounds

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

Cash-strapped nurseries are facing a new financial struggle after it has emerged that many are losing thousands meeting sick pay costs.

Government spends £30,000 of public money on GCSE challenge

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Friday, May 15, 2015

| Nursery World

A Government body racked up a £30,000 legal bill trying to avoid changing controversial rules over apprenticeships – and then tried to get a training company to pay it.

First aid training will be compulsory for all nursery staff

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

| Nursery World

All newly qualified nursery staff will be legally required to take paediatric first aid training for the first time from next year.

Government deletes controversial rule over apprentices' GCSEs

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Friday, February 13, 2015

| Nursery World

The Government has formally abolished the five-year-rule, paving the way for GCSEs of any date to be used to complete an apprenticeship.

Call for all nursery staff to be qualified in paediatric first aid

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Monday, December 15, 2014

| Nursery World

MPs will debate in parliament today whether all nursery staff should be qualified in paediatric first aid, following a campaign by parents.

Government set to delete 'five year rule' on GCSE re-sits

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government is set to back down over controversial rules which could force hundreds of apprentices to retake valid GCSEs.

Ireland Reforms - Progress is slow for Ireland's childcare sector

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Monday, August 25, 2014

| Nursery World

More than a year since a television programme revealed below-standards of care and mistreatment at some of Ireland's creches, little improvement appears to have been made to the country's childcare.

Childminder takes petition against agencies to House of Commons

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

| Nursery World

The Stop, Listen, Consult petition has been signed by nearly 4,000 people and calls for the Department for Education to reconsider plans in More Great Childcare.

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Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

Level 3 consultation generates huge response

DfE consults on Level 3 skills requirements

Apprentice funding cuts ‘hit poor’

Final apprenticeships funding rates: Cuts of up to a third overall

Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

Experts highlight parenting class mistakes

Tax credit cut to hit early years workers hard

Sick pay costing nurseries thousands of pounds

Government spends £30,000 of public money on GCSE challenge

First aid training will be compulsory for all nursery staff

Government deletes controversial rule over apprentices' GCSEs

Call for all nursery staff to be qualified in paediatric first aid

Government set to delete 'five year rule' on GCSE re-sits

Ireland Reforms - Progress is slow for Ireland's childcare sector

Childminder takes petition against agencies to House of Commons

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