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Extending the free entitlement for two-year-olds

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Offering free early education to disadvantaged two-year-olds raises questions over availability and quality of provision, says Joyce Connor, Programme Director Early Years at National Children's Bureau

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.

Calls for clarification on changes to Covid rules for under-fives amid rising cases and Omicron uncertainty

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

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Children under five who are close contacts of a positive Covid case no longer need to take a test or self-isolate, according to updated government guidance, leading to calls from the sector for clarification of the guidance.

Early years sector condemns Telegraph article and unites behind Liz Pemberton's 'vital work'

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

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The sector has rallied behind early years expert and trainer Liz Pemberton, after The Telegraph published what many consider to be a highly personal attack about her company The Black Nursery Manager, under the headline ‘Councils hire “Maoist” consultants to “decolonise minds” of nursery school children.’

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

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A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Government U turns over apprentice GCSEs

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

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Apprentices have been handed a lifeline after the Government climbed down over GCSE rules yesterday.

Tax-Free Childcare delayed until 2017

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

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Tax-free childcare (TFC) has been delayed until early 2017, following a legal challenge from the childcare voucher provider companies.

Danger of childcare workforce shortage without wage increase

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Friday, July 24, 2015

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Low pay in the childcare sector could lead to a shortage in staff, warns a new report.

Government launches child protection review

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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Education secretary Michael Gove and children and families minister Tim Loughton last week invited Professor Eileen Munro from the London School of Economics to conduct an independent review of child protection and social work in England that will focus on how social workers can spend more time with vulnerable children.

Nursery owner calls on PM to honour pledge on top-up fees

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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A nursery owner who received a letter from David Cameron's office before the General Election, stating that the Conservatives believed the 2006 Code of Practice on free nursery education places should be suspended and nurseries allowed to charge 'supplementary fees', is urging the Prime Minister to stand by his party's pre-election policy.

Providers call for more flexible code of practice for free entitlement

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Nurseries and local authorities must be able to operate 'flexibly' within the revised Code of Practice, a policy group of nursery providers said this week.

Nursery market is on the up, new survey shows

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Laing & Buisson's latest survey of the UK nursery market reveals that business has improved in the last six months, with occupancy levels rising.

Council backs down over funded places plans for nursery staff

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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Lancashire County Council has made a dramatic climbdown over its decision to ban nursery workers with related children in their nursery from claiming free hours funding.

Nurseries warn that the national living wage will push up fees

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

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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.

Voluntary nursery loses capital funds

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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A community nursery in the London Borough of Hackney that was due to receive 330,000 from the Early Years Capital Grant has become one of the latest victims of Government cuts.

Council nurseries to be turned over to private sector

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Children's centres and nurseries in Suffolk are to be run by the private and voluntary sector as part of plans to move the county council from being a provider of services to a commissioner.