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Nurseries and childminders gain right to ask to run school site provision

Monday, December 7, 2015

| Nursery World

Childcare providers will be able to ask schools if they can use their premises to run before and after-school and holiday childcare when they are not using them.

Spending Review: Chancellor reveals more details of 30-hour childcare

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Parents will need to work 16 hours a week to be eligible for 30 hours of free childcare from 2017, the Chancellor has confirmed.

Unpaid overtime props up sector

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Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

Nurseries are relying on the ‘goodwill’ of staff to work unpaid overtime, according to a new survey by the education professionals’ union Voice.

Close to six million people earning less than a living wage

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

| Nursery World

New research suggests that 5.84 million people are paid less than the Living Wage and of these 280,000 work in the childcare and related personal services sector.

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| Nursery World

More details of how early years providers can apply for grants of up to £50,000 in social investment funding have been released.

Providers facing real-term funding cut while costs rise

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years providers are facing a real-term cut in funding to deliver three and four-year-old places in 2015/16, amid increases to business and running costs.

Largest ever increase to National Minimum Wage from October

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

| Nursery World

The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have today announced increases to the national minimum wage, including a 20 per cent rise to the amount apprentices are paid an hour.

Sam Gyimah launches £500,000 childcare social investment fund

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years providers will be able to apply for a share of a new fund designed to encourage the corporate sector to invest in the childcare market.

Nurseries must 'innovate' to make funding work, childcare minister says

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Friday, November 28, 2014

| Nursery World

Nurseries should make more use of ‘economies of scale’ to offer parents more affordable childcare, Sam Gyimah has said.

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

| Nursery World

The expansion of Government-funded places for two-year-olds and better economic conditions has driven demand for children’s nurseries, according to a new report.

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Research into the pilot of childminder agencies has been published by the Department for Education.

Childcare fees now higher than mortgage, but rise slows

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

| Nursery World

Families pay on average more for childcare than their mortgage, according to the annual childcare costs survey by the Family and Childcare Trust.

Funding shortfalls burn a bigger hole in nursery pockets

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Monday, February 24, 2014

| Nursery World

Providing early education places for three- and four-year-olds is leaving nurseries nearly twice as much out of pocket than a year ago, a new survey suggests.

NDNA reveals programme for 2014 conference

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Friday, January 24, 2014

| Nursery World

Politicians and industry experts will join bestselling children’s author Jez Alborough and hundreds of delegates from the early years sector at the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) 2014 Essential Nursery Conference in June.

Exclusive - Minister says rates and VAT changes may be considered

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove has mooted the possibility that changes to business rate relief and VAT for nurseries could be considered at the same time as plans being looked into for academies and free schools.

NDNA calls for business rate exemption for nurseries

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association is calling for all nurseries to be exempt from business rates, following Ed Miliband's pledge to lower them for small businesses.

Nursery Management free with Nursery World

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Monday, September 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Get up to speed with the all the latest Government proposals and find out what they could mean for your business by taking a look at the current issue of our Nursery Management supplement.

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

| Nursery World

Two more venues have been added for the early years sector's Ofsted Big Conversation weekend.

Most parents believe ratios in graduate-led settings are too high

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Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

More than half of parents believe that nurseries should employ more staff to look after nursery age children, research by the Department for Education suggests.

DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nurseries are being urged to share their running costs with the Department for Education.

Nursery education funding 'must be protected' to curb free places crisis

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector faces 'chronic underfunding', which threatens to put at risk the Government's plans to expand free nursery education places for two-year-olds.

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector has slammed the Department for Education's (DfE) financial analysis of the ratio proposals as a 'fantasy'.

DfE claims ratio plans could slash fees by more than a quarter

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Friday, May 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to increase staff: child ratios in early years settings could see nurseries increasing their revenue by more than 200,000 a year, according to a DfE analysis.

2m fund to boost childcare start-ups

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

| Nursery World

A 2m scheme to encourage more people to set up as childminders, open nurseries and get more women into work has opened for applications.

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Nurseries and childminders gain right to ask to run school site provision

Spending Review: Chancellor reveals more details of 30-hour childcare

Unpaid overtime props up sector

Close to six million people earning less than a living wage

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

Providers facing real-term funding cut while costs rise

Largest ever increase to National Minimum Wage from October

Sam Gyimah launches £500,000 childcare social investment fund

Nurseries must 'innovate' to make funding work, childcare minister says

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

Childcare fees now higher than mortgage, but rise slows

Funding shortfalls burn a bigger hole in nursery pockets

NDNA reveals programme for 2014 conference

Exclusive - Minister says rates and VAT changes may be considered

NDNA calls for business rate exemption for nurseries

Nursery Management free with Nursery World

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

Most parents believe ratios in graduate-led settings are too high

DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs

Nursery education funding 'must be protected' to curb free places crisis

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

DfE claims ratio plans could slash fees by more than a quarter

2m fund to boost childcare start-ups

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