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Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has broadly welcomed the Budget announcement to boost the number of childminders by introducing start-up grants, however expressed disappointment over a lack of support for those currently in the profession.

Early years action group to stage protest in March

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Monday, January 16, 2023

| Nursery World

A protest has been organised for the early years sector in London in two months' time.

Busy Bees to offer Sky employees nursery discounts

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

| Nursery World

Busy Bees is joining forces with Sky to provide work-place childcare to parents.

Childbase staff to receive £3,000 in bonuses to help with cost-of-living crisis

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

| Nursery World

Nursery group Childbase Partnership is helping staff with soaring bills with tax-free bonuses of up to £3,000, and raising salaries by an average of 8 per cent.

Nursery group Childbase named in Sunday Times 'Best Place To Work' list

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

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The Childbase Partnership, which owns and manages 44 nurseries, has been named as one of the top 40 ‘Best Places to Work’ in the UK.

Busy Bees celebrates 40 years in business

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

| Nursery World

The UK’s largest early years provider, Busy Bees, has celebrated its 40th birthday with the launch of a new setting in Lichfield – the city where the nursery group opened its first site back in 1983.

Ashbourne Day Nurseries buys Harp Nurseries

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

| Nursery World

Ashbourne Day Nurseries has acquired Harp Nurseries, bringing its total number of settings to 41.

Ex-Asquith CEO and staff launch new nursery group

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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The former chief executive of Asquith Nurseries, one of the largest nursery chains in the country, has started a new nursery group with the acquisition of two stand-alone settings.

All About Children buys Nelly’s Nurseries to expand London base

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

| Nursery World

Nursery group All About Children has bought a family-owned chain of four nurseries in South-East London taking its total settings to 17.

Co-operative Childcare staff to ballot for strike action

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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

| Nursery World

Nursery staff at a Co-operative Childcare nursery are to be balloted for strike action over planned cuts to pay and conditions worth £95,000 a year.

Tea party kicks off group's new nursery

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

The Bertram Nursery Group has celebrated the opening of its first branch in the Liverpool area with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party weekend.

New Nursery World ahead

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

| Nursery World

Nursery World is changing from 14 June, with a great new combination of print and online content to meet the needs of the early years sector even better, while keeping all the elements of Nursery World that its readers value so highly.

Foundation Years: Government wants new 'covenant' with early years providers

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Monday, July 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Ministers are proposing a new way of working, building on the 'co-production' process, to draw up a 'covenant' between the early years sector, the DfE and local authorities.

Ofsted annual report highlights high quality of early years education

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

| Nursery World

The gap between the quality of early years provision in poorer areas of the country and the more affluent has narrowed during Sir Michael Wilshaw's time as chief inspector.

Autumn statement 2011: sector reaction to rise in two-year-old places and tax credit freezes

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

| Nursery World

The early years sector has given a largely positive response to the Chancellor's announcement to extend the free entitlement to 40 per cent of two-year-olds by 2015.

Happy Days nursery group wins £8m for expansion

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

| Nursery World

Happy Days Nurseries has received £8m to open settings in 10 new locations over the next three years.

DIT forum continues drive for early years expansion in China

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for International Trade is inviting early years providers to a UK-China Early Years Education Development Forum on 7 December.

Shock rise in VAT could force up nursery fees

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries may be forced to increase their fees to cope with the increase in VAT, early years organisations have warned.

Council nurseries consider charging parents of funded twos for meals

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Friday, July 14, 2017

| Nursery World

The last remaining council-run nurseries in Bromley are under threat of closure, because the local authority says it can no longer afford to run them.

NDNA Business Performance Survey December 2012 - A North-South divide for nursery prospects

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Many nurseries had a bumpy ride in the second half of 2012. Karen Faux reports on survey findings which provide key pointers for the year ahead.

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

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Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Local authorities will no longer have a role to improve quality in early years settings, leaving the future of the work of early years authority advisers and their teams unclear.

Childbase opens 40th site

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Minister for Children and Families Tim Loughton officially opened the new Greengables nursery in Sandhurst, Buckinghamshire, the 40th setting in the Childbase chain.

Spotlight on ... Sian Nesbitt

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Name: Sian NesbittPosition: owner and director of Dizzy Ducks Day Nurseries

Enormous shortfall in two-year-old places predicted

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Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Some of the largest nursery groups in the country are concerned that a shortfall in the number of nursery places for disadvantaged two-year-olds could hamper Government plans to expand free nursery education, Nursery World has learned.

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Montessori settings will be expected to sign up to a new Code of Practice to endorse their professionalism and the quality of their early years provision.

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Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

Early years action group to stage protest in March

Busy Bees to offer Sky employees nursery discounts

Childbase staff to receive £3,000 in bonuses to help with cost-of-living crisis

Nursery group Childbase named in Sunday Times 'Best Place To Work' list

Busy Bees celebrates 40 years in business

Ashbourne Day Nurseries buys Harp Nurseries

Ex-Asquith CEO and staff launch new nursery group

All About Children buys Nelly’s Nurseries to expand London base

Co-operative Childcare staff to ballot for strike action

Tea party kicks off group's new nursery

New Nursery World ahead

Foundation Years: Government wants new 'covenant' with early years providers

Ofsted annual report highlights high quality of early years education

Autumn statement 2011: sector reaction to rise in two-year-old places and tax credit freezes

Happy Days nursery group wins £8m for expansion

DIT forum continues drive for early years expansion in China

Shock rise in VAT could force up nursery fees

Council nurseries consider charging parents of funded twos for meals

NDNA Business Performance Survey December 2012 - A North-South divide for nursery prospects

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

Childbase opens 40th site

Spotlight on ... Sian Nesbitt

Enormous shortfall in two-year-old places predicted

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

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