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Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

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.

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

House of Commons nursery 'viable' despite £1m bill

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The House of Commons has declared its nursery ‘viable’ following a number of years spent loss-making.

HMRC tells childminders to repay thousands in tax credits

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Childminders must now prove their business is being run to make a profit or could be forced to repay thousands of pounds in backdated tax credits.

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries are considering fee rises of up to seven per cent to help pay for the new ‘living wage’, according to property expert Courteney Donaldson.

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Following the announcements made in the Chancellor’s Autumn Spending Review, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of research agency Ceeda, examines how providers will be affected financially

Nurseries warn that the national living wage will push up fees

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

| Nursery World

Nursery employers have ‘major concerns’ over the need to increase fees for parents in order to pay staff the National Living Wage, a report by Christie + Co reveals.

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

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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.

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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

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

NDNA survey: most settings wary of 30 hours

House of Commons nursery 'viable' despite £1m bill

HMRC tells childminders to repay thousands in tax credits

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Nurseries warn that the national living wage will push up fees

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

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