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Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding

Friday, February 22, 2019

| Nursery World

Self-employed childcare providers could miss out on Universal Credit as a result of receiving early years entitlement funding, the Early Years Alliance has warned.

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.

Early years Welsh language scheme launches

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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.

T-level funding 'better' than for EYE courses

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Friday, June 21, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government will spend more than £10,000 on each childcare T- level in a bid to boost the numbers taking this new Level 3 programme.

Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’

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Monday, January 1, 0001

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have warned that the plans to increase the minimum wage to £10.50 an hour, announced by the Chancellor yesterday, will lead to more nursery closures.

Rise to Living Wage will be felt by Scottish nurseries, warns NDNA

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

| Nursery World

The NDNA says that Scottish nurseries, which must pay the Living Wage to deliver the country's funded hours, will be put under strain with the increase to the rate.

PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities

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Thursday, December 7, 2017

| Nursery World

During Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) this week, Theresa May said nursery owners had told her that some local authorities are operating the 30 hours 'system' well, while others are not.

Government scraps early years expansion fund

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Thursday, January 4, 2018

| Nursery World

The early years investment fund, which was due to provide cheap money to enable settings to expand, has been quietly jettisoned, Nursery World has learned.

Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Campaigners against cuts to children's centres will march on Downing Street to hand a letter to the Prime Minister demanding more funding to save early years services.

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Representatives of the campaign to save Salford’s five local authority nurseries have been invited to meet children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi today (Wednesday 16 May).?

Exclusive: 30 hours saves poorest parents least

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Monday, September 18, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours policy will save some of the poorest households £5 per week, while the richest will gain ten times that, analysis finds.

Nursery group crowdfunds for life-saving devices

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Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

Bright Kids nursery group is crowdfunding to raise money to buy a defibrillator for each of its three settings and one for public use.

Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years

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Monday, September 17, 2018

| Nursery World

Investment in Sure Start has further declined with the Government spending just over £576 million on children's centres in 2017-18, compared with £1.8 billion in 2009-10.

Busy Bees campaigns for higher rate for Tax-Free Childcare

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Benefits has launched a second nationwide 'Mind the Gap - Raise the Cap' campaign to ensure the Government's proposed Tax-Free Childcare Scheme reflects childcare costs.

EXCLUSIVE: Busy Bees quits trailblazer group as 'process not employer-led'

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

| Nursery World

Busy Bees has sensationally resigned from the chair of the early years trailblazer group after trying for 18 months to get the Level 3 apprenticeship standard released, Nursery World can reveal.

Nursery schools twice as likely to be in deficit than schools

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

| Nursery World

New Government figures reveal in each of the last three years, the proportion of nursery schools in deficit has been double that of all schools.

Education Secretary questioned in Parliament over our 30 hours investigation

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

| Nursery World

A leading MP has called for the Government to better evaluate the impact of its policies after our investigation found that the 30 hours offer is penalising disadvantaged children.

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

| Nursery World

The DfE is looking for a national training partner to take on the next stage of the Early Years Professional Development Fund, the children’s minister told delegates at the Nursery World Business Summit.

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

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Monday, November 26, 2018

| Nursery World

Nearly nine in ten providers offering the 30 hours in Wales agree that the rate is viable, according to findings from research into the early implementer phase of the scheme.

Government dismisses MPs' call for national early intervention strategy

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Friday, February 8, 2019

| Nursery World

MPs have been left 'frustrated' by the Government's rejection of a new national early intervention strategy to tackle childhood adversity and trauma.

Scotland's first minister announces funded childcare expansion

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| Nursery World

Scotland is to pilot funded early years education for children from the age of nine months, following in the footsteps of England.

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Nursery World

The education secretary Gillian Keegan has said that an extra 40,000 staff will be needed to deliver the full rollout of the expanded 30 hours.

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector leaders and experts have welcomed the Chancellor’s focus on childcare reform in the Budget, but warn the funding promised will not solve the current crisis, and there is no detail as yet on funding rates for providers of the expanded 30-hour offer.

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

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Monday, April 3, 2023

| Nursery World

The Food Foundation is calling on ministers to do more to raise awareness of the Healthy Start scheme and increase its value and eligibility, after it failed to meet the Government’s own target for take-up among low-income families.

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

| Nursery World

YMCA, the largest charity provider of childcare in the UK, is closing four nurseries at the end of the month, and warns more could close, as years of underfunding and rates for 2023-24 leave early years providers ‘buckling under the strain’.

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Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding

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

Early years Welsh language scheme launches

T-level funding 'better' than for EYE courses

Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’

Rise to Living Wage will be felt by Scottish nurseries, warns NDNA

PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities

Government scraps early years expansion fund

Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

Exclusive: 30 hours saves poorest parents least

Nursery group crowdfunds for life-saving devices

Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years

Busy Bees campaigns for higher rate for Tax-Free Childcare

EXCLUSIVE: Busy Bees quits trailblazer group as 'process not employer-led'

Nursery schools twice as likely to be in deficit than schools

Education Secretary questioned in Parliament over our 30 hours investigation

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

Government dismisses MPs' call for national early intervention strategy

Scotland's first minister announces funded childcare expansion

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

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