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Exclusive: PACEY Workforce survey finds childminders more confident than nurseries about the future

Monday, March 6, 2017

| Nursery World

While many nurseries are losing confidence in their financial prospects, childminders appear to be feeling more optimistic.

DfE offers childminder start-up grants for 30 hours

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Friday, February 24, 2017

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Newly registered childminders and childminder agencies can apply for grants of up to £1,000, if they are planning to offer the Government’s funded 30-hour childcare places.

Campaigners lodge complaint against Government on 30 hours 'price fixing'

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Monday, February 20, 2017

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A campaign group of childcare providers have lodged a complaint with the competition watchdog about the Government’s underfunding of the free hours.

Charge for extras to make 30 hours viable, Minister tells nurseries

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

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Early years minister Caroline Dinenage has told private nursery owners that they must charge parents for additional services if their viability is threatened by 30 hours funding rates that are less than the fees they charge outside the free entitlement.

Alliance wins data victory on DfE childcare costs report

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Friday, February 10, 2017

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Research carried out for a DfE review into the costs of childcare has finally been published a year after a Freedom of Information request from the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Worst employer excuses for not paying the minimum wage revealed

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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Only making the tea, not being British, and it doesn’t apply to me, are all reasons that employers have given for not paying the statutory minimum wage, the Government has revealed.

NLW a challenge for childcare employers

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

| Nursery World

New analysis highlights the pressure put on nurseries by the introduction of the National Living Wage.

Final apprenticeships funding rates: Cuts of up to a third overall

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

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Plans to slash funding for early years apprentices have been upheld by the Government, despite an outcry.

Nursery World Business Summit 2016 - 30-hour pilots

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

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Hear from the early implementer councils about the progress of the 30-hour pilots at the Business Summit on 8 November.

Business healthcheck to live on after 4Children closure

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Monday, September 19, 2016

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An early years ‘business healthcheck’ website to replace the now defunct 4Children version, is due to be relaunched in the new year.

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

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Monday, September 19, 2016

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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

Apprenticeship levy warning to early years sector

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

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Settings are urged to air their views in the Government’s apprenticeship levy consultation after a leading training provider warned that ‘catastrophic’ funding cuts are in store.

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

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Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for consultation today.

Sector response: early years national funding formula

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

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Early years organsiations that have long campaigned for early years funding reform have broadly welcomed the plans.

Opening time signalled for nursery group's £2m pub expansion

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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

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A £2m expansion scheme is underway after a husband and wife-run nursery group purchased two former pubs.

Ex Montessori boss: Fraud trial set for 2017

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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Former Montessori chief Philip Bujak will stand crown court trial in 2017 for his alleged role in a high-value plot to defraud the Montessori St Nicholas charity over the sale of one of its London buildings.