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Early years Welsh language scheme launches

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

| Nursery World

A new scheme to strengthen early years practitioners’ Welsh language skills has been launched by the National Centre for Learning Welsh.

Birmingham nursery schools feeding and clothing children

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

| Nursery World

Birmingham nursery schools contribute more than £11.5 million a year more than they receive in funding, including feeding and clothing children, new analysis claims.

East Sussex children's centres could close

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Friday, May 24, 2019

| Nursery World

Fourteen children’s centres in East Sussex have been earmarked for closure in an attempt to cut council budgets.

Student art project highlights child poverty and calls for change

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

| Nursery World

De Montfort University students have urged Leicester to invest in the future of local children as part of their end of year event.

Childcare providers urged to join with parents in fight for funding

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

| Nursery World

A parent campaigner is asking providers to take part in a survey into childcare funding and the impact of the recruitment crisis.

DfE launches call for evidence on SEND funding system

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Friday, May 3, 2019

| Nursery World

The education secretary is inviting schools and local authorities to put forward ideas to improve the funding system for pupils with SEND.

MPs call for funding rise of £3.1 bn for children's services

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Children’s services in England are ‘at breaking point’, MPs warn today.

30 hours policy 'entrenches inequality' says social mobility watchdog

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government should extend its 30 hours offer to those working eight hours per week and eventually to all unemployed parents, the Social Mobility Commission said today.

Early years sector asked to unite in fight for fairer funding

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Monday, April 29, 2019

| Nursery World

The childcare sector is being urged to join together in the fight for increased funding by taking part in a week of action.

New intergenerational scheme to grow, cook and eat together

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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

| Nursery World

A new lottery-funded programme aims to connect people of all ages and tackle loneliness and unhealthy eating.

Local authority tells settings not to charge for funded twos

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Monday, April 15, 2019

| Nursery World

As providers increasingly move to charging parents of disadvantaged two-year-olds for ‘extras’, one local authority body has recommended settings refrain from doing so.

Mental health spending leaves children facing postcode lottery

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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

| Nursery World

Investment in children’s mental health services has fallen in over a third of local areas in England, with wide variation across the country, according to the Children’s Commissioner for England.

Northamptonshire slashes early years funding

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

| Nursery World

Northamptonshire county council has gone ahead with its proposed cuts to funding supplements paid to providers.

Councillors call on education secretary to reverse school funding cuts

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

| Nursery World

A letter from the National Education Union (NEU) urging the education secretary Damian Hinds to end the school funding crisis has been signed by 1,115 local councillors.

Settings face cuts after council overspend

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Monday, April 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Childcare providers in Northamptonshire may be forced to get rid of staff, resources or reduce their own salaries if the county council goes ahead with plans to cut early years funding from April.

9 in 10 childcare providers plan fees hike

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

| Nursery World

Nurseries and childminders across the country are planning on increasing their charges to parents because of upcoming increases to the national living and minimum wage.

PACEY launches #notababysitter campaign

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Friday, March 29, 2019

| Nursery World

PACEY has launched the next stage of a campaign to dispel myths about childminders and boost take-up of funded twos places.

Underfunding pushing up costs for parents, suggests new research

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

| Nursery World

A new DfE report on providers’ finances shows that the hourly fee charged by settings for three- and four-year-old places is on average 58p higher than what they receive in funding.

Apprenticeship providers rail against Level 3 impasse

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

| Nursery World

Training providers say they have lost faith in the Government to deliver the Level 3 apprenticeship standard – which has still not been produced five years after work on it started.

Rise in staff costs risks nursery 'casualties', warns NDNA

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| Nursery World

Three-quarters of nurseries are facing a hike of between 5- to- 12 per cent to their staffing costs due to the rise in wages and pensions from 1 April.

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Early years Welsh language scheme launches

Birmingham nursery schools feeding and clothing children

East Sussex children's centres could close

Student art project highlights child poverty and calls for change

Childcare providers urged to join with parents in fight for funding

DfE launches call for evidence on SEND funding system

MPs call for funding rise of £3.1 bn for children's services

30 hours policy 'entrenches inequality' says social mobility watchdog

Early years sector asked to unite in fight for fairer funding

New intergenerational scheme to grow, cook and eat together

Local authority tells settings not to charge for funded twos

Mental health spending leaves children facing postcode lottery

Northamptonshire slashes early years funding

Councillors call on education secretary to reverse school funding cuts

Settings face cuts after council overspend

9 in 10 childcare providers plan fees hike

PACEY launches #notababysitter campaign

Underfunding pushing up costs for parents, suggests new research

Apprenticeship providers rail against Level 3 impasse

Rise in staff costs risks nursery 'casualties', warns NDNA

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