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Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

Thursday, March 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The YouTube video has been launched by a group of nursery owners to campaign against the government’s policies on the free entitlement.

Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

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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.

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

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Friday, January 22, 2016

| Nursery World

4Children is supporting nurseries, schools and local authorities to open childminder agencies in a new push by the Department for Education to expand the scheme across England.

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.

Exclusive: Living wage to create funding gap of hundreds of millions

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Monday, August 24, 2015

| Nursery World

The introduction of the 'national living wage' (NLW) next April will push the nursery sector into a deficit running into hundreds of millions of pounds without serious commitment from the Government to reforming the system of childcare funding.

'Chronic childcare shortages risk Government plans'

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Friday, June 26, 2015

| Nursery World

Local authorities’ failure to monitor childcare provision, and a lack of available places, risks putting the Government’s childcare plans in jeopardy, warns a new report.

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.

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Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

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

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

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

Exclusive: Living wage to create funding gap of hundreds of millions

'Chronic childcare shortages risk Government plans'

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

Providers facing real-term funding cut while costs rise

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