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DfE gets tough on childminder funding

Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The Department for Education (DfE) is toughening its stance on local authority approaches to funding childminders for free early education places.

Exclusive: Concern over lack of data on nursery deaths and injuries

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

No official records are kept on the number of deaths, serious injuries and accidents that occur while children are in nursery or other childcare settings, a Nursery World investigation reveals.

Ofsted Big Conversation: Sector makes list of actions for Ofsted

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Friday, September 20, 2013

| Nursery World

The weekend of action sparked a wealth of ideas from nursery owners, practitioners, and childminders, among others.

New framework for childminder agency inspection released

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| Nursery World

Childminding agencies will either be judged as ‘effective’ or ‘non-effective’ by Ofsted during their inspections, new guidance reveals.

Council scraps plans for free hours funding withdrawal

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Lancashire County Council confirmed today (2 April) that it will not be going ahead with plans that would have seen children with relatives working in the same setting losing their early education funding.

Children's centre groups make progress in latest inspections

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

| Nursery World

More children's centre groups are being judged good or outstanding according to new Ofsted statistics, but nearly half are still below this level.

Childcare minister calls for business rate relief for nurseries

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Local authorities will be given a financial incentive to encourage them to offer business rate relief to nurseries.

Child poverty rise triggers Brexit warnings

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

| Nursery World

Children’s charities are urging the Government to rule out further welfare cuts amid Brexit uncertainty, after it was revealed child poverty rose by 200,000 last year.

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

Funding formula online calculator launched

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Friday, September 9, 2016

| Nursery World

A confusion-busting online calculator is helping settings work out what rates they may be getting when the new early years national funding formula is rolled out.

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

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Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries across the country have reacted with shock and anger to huge rises in business rates due to come into effect next April.

Scotland to become first country in the UK to ban smacking

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has committed to banning smacking in law.

Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

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Friday, March 31, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s apprenticeships policies lack focus and will not close the skills gap because they fail to concentrate on the sectors and regions where training is most needed, an MPs' report warns.

EXCLUSIVE: Trailblazer drafts apprenticeship standard for EYE Level 3

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

| Nursery World

The newly-appointed Early Years Trailblazer group has launched a three-week consultation on the development of the EYE Level 3 apprenticeship standard.

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.

Online junk food ads aimed at children to be banned

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Online advertising of foods high in fat, salt and sugar aimed at children is to be banned under new rules coming into effect next year.

Ofsted's new inspection framework: Aiming for a two-way process

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Susan Gregory, national director education, Ofsted, maps out the changes which will encourage providers to take stronger ownership of their inspections in the future.

Majority against higher qualified staff having to care for more children

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Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Eight in ten nurseries are against Government proposals to allow highly qualified staff in nurseries to look after more children, a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association suggests.

Consultation begins on training standards for the new Early Years Teacher role

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

The DfE has launched a consultation on the standards which will underpin the training and assessment of the new Early Years Teacher role.

Guidance on 'British values' could pave the way for complaints

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

| Nursery World

Guidance about local authorities’ new role over the thorny issue of ‘British values’ in early education could leave the early years sector open to more complaints, a charity has warned.

Early years settings, schools and colleges will share common inspection framework

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Thursday, October 9, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years settings will be inspected under a new common inspection framework alongside schools and further education colleges, in plans put out for consultation by Ofsted today.

Government consults on 'unfair' disqualification rules

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Friday, May 6, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government is considering scrapping ‘disqualification by association’ rules for some settings, following heavy criticism from the early years sector, and is inviting comment on three consultation options.

DfE updates guidance on shielding for early years settings

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Guidance for staff and children who are defined as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ has been updated by the Department for Education in response to the new Covid alert levels.

Coronavirus: DfE publishes guidance for education and childcare settings ahead of second lockdown

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has published guidance for education and childcare settings ahead of the new national lockdown in England, which comes into force tomorrow.

Ofsted revises rules for compliance inspections

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Monday, February 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The early years sector has welcomed the decision by Ofsted that it will no longer automatically carry out a full inspection following a compliance investigation.

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DfE gets tough on childminder funding

Exclusive: Concern over lack of data on nursery deaths and injuries

Ofsted Big Conversation: Sector makes list of actions for Ofsted

New framework for childminder agency inspection released

Council scraps plans for free hours funding withdrawal

Children's centre groups make progress in latest inspections

Childcare minister calls for business rate relief for nurseries

Child poverty rise triggers Brexit warnings

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

Funding formula online calculator launched

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

Scotland to become first country in the UK to ban smacking

Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

EXCLUSIVE: Trailblazer drafts apprenticeship standard for EYE Level 3

DfE consults on Level 3 skills requirements

Online junk food ads aimed at children to be banned

Ofsted's new inspection framework: Aiming for a two-way process

Majority against higher qualified staff having to care for more children

Consultation begins on training standards for the new Early Years Teacher role

Guidance on 'British values' could pave the way for complaints

Early years settings, schools and colleges will share common inspection framework

Government consults on 'unfair' disqualification rules

DfE updates guidance on shielding for early years settings

Coronavirus: DfE publishes guidance for education and childcare settings ahead of second lockdown

Ofsted revises rules for compliance inspections

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