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Plush new home mapped out for pre-school

Monday, August 15, 2016

| Nursery World

Building is due to start on a multi-million pound school expansion which will provide brand new premises for a pre-school that has spent nearly 16 years in an outdoor cabin.

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for consultation today.

Sector response: early years national funding formula

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years organsiations that have long campaigned for early years funding reform have broadly welcomed the plans.

Settings unable to access 30 hours capital cash

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Friday, July 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Fears that settings won’t be able to access their fair share of Government grants to deliver the 30 hours have been raised after providers said they were unaware the cash existed.

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

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Monday, July 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Brexit will undoubtedly have an impact in some form on early years, according to commentators.

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

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Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries and childminders in York have won their battle for more Government funding for the 30 hours’ childcare pilot.

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

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Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

A nursery chain which has defended a ‘general extras’ charge as necessary to subsidise government-funded places has published a new policy to help get around the problem.

Nursery owners design ‘Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding’ cards

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Friday, May 13, 2016

| Nursery World

Thousands of individually-designed cards opposing the Government’s policies on the free entitlement will be mailed out by campaigning nurseries on National Children’s Day.

Apprenticeship levy needs 'radical rethink'

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy, paid by large employers to fund an expansion of apprenticeships, needs a ‘radical rethink’, the CBI will warn today.

Pre-school 'good' again following mobile phone pic downgrade

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously Outstanding pre-school branded Inadequate after it sent mobile phone photos of children to parents, has been upgraded again following a re-inspection.

30 hours funding: many in the dark, while some face cuts

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Monday, April 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years providers around the country had not been informed of 2016/17 funding rates for three- and four-year-olds only a few days before the new financial year began.

'Low-pay childcare sector can't afford National Living Wage'

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Friday, April 1, 2016

| Nursery World

The national living wage has come into force today - as childcare providers say they cannot afford to pay it without raising fees.

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The YouTube video has been launched by a group of nursery owners to campaign against the government’s policies on the free entitlement.

Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Ceeda director Dr Jo Verrill unpicks the Government’s response to queries about how a range of costs have been accounted for in its 30-hour funding review - and finds some concerning gaps

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

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Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Research commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its review into the cost of expanding free childcare to 30 hours is not held by the DfE, Nursery World can reveal, despite being quoted 50 times in a key report.

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Measure in yesterday's Budget set to affect the early years sector include a cut to business rates, a sugar levy and an extension to childcare vouchers.

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The DfE has extended the bursary scheme for graduate entry to Early Years Teacher Status courses to those with 2.2 degrees for 2016/17.

Poorer children could miss out on free childcare places, NAO warns

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

| Nursery World

Failure to get the funding right for the 30-hour childcare policy could lead to cuts to places for disadvantaged two-year-olds, the Government’s independent spending watchdog claims today.

NDNA survey: most settings wary of 30 hours

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Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The latest NDNA survey finds funding and the 30 hours policy causing nurseries concern

Majority of nurseries may not offer 30-hour childcare

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government’s plans to double free childcare for parents of three- and four-year-olds could come to a grinding halt as fewer than half of the country’s nurseries say they are likely to offer the places.

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Plush new home mapped out for pre-school

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

Sector response: early years national funding formula

Settings unable to access 30 hours capital cash

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

Nursery owners design ‘Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding’ cards

Apprenticeship levy needs 'radical rethink'

Pre-school 'good' again following mobile phone pic downgrade

30 hours funding: many in the dark, while some face cuts

'Low-pay childcare sector can't afford National Living Wage'

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

Poorer children could miss out on free childcare places, NAO warns

NDNA survey: most settings wary of 30 hours

Majority of nurseries may not offer 30-hour childcare

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