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Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

Thursday, July 16, 2015

| Nursery World

New guidance to help early years settings calculate the real cost of providing funded childcare places is now available.

Alliance calls for comprehensive analysis of free places costs

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance is calling for an in-depth review of funded childcare, amid concerns that the Government has ‘severely under-costed’ its 30-hour plan.

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Data experts have costed the three main parties' pledges on extended free childcare.

Council backs down over funded places plans for nursery staff

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

| Nursery World

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.

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.

Early Years Pupil Premium: Can nurseries make the EYPP work?

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Monday, February 9, 2015

| Nursery World

The early years pupil premium comes into effect this April. But while the extra funding is welcome, the initiative looks likely to present some challenges for settings, as Charlotte Goddard explains.

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Sixty teaching schools will share £5m of Government funding in partnerships with local nurseries.

Study highlights barriers for childminders offering funded places

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

| Nursery World

More childminders would consider providing funded places for three- and four-year-olds if funding were increased, new research suggests.

Osborne goes ahead with doubling of Childcare Business Grant funds

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has confirmed that it will fund a £2m extension of the Childcare Business Grant scheme.

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.

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has launched a new parent campaign to highlight the cash value of early education places.

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.

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

| Nursery World

The expansion of Government-funded places for two-year-olds and better economic conditions has driven demand for children’s nurseries, according to a new report.

Osborne looks to extend Childcare Business Grant

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Friday, October 24, 2014

| Nursery World

Chancellor George Osborne is considering boosting the Childcare Business Grant scheme by £2m as part of a drive to increase female employment.

£2.3m early years bursary scheme attracts handful of applicants

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Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Labour has branded the Early Years Apprenticeship Scheme a failure, after just 23 apprentices were successful in applying for the funding.

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to make childcare more affordable and increase the provision of out-of-school childcare in schools have been set out today.

Complaints spark Teach First review

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Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

The eligibility criteria for Teach First are currently being reviewed following complaints that applicants with early years degrees were unable to apply for the scheme.

Two-year-olds Q&A: Determined to extend reach

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Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

With the Government planning to ramp up the two-year-olds programme for 2014, Karen Faux breaks down the facts and figures to ask what it means for the sector.

Childcare providers raise concerns over future funding of two-year-old scheme

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Friday, June 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Some providers fear that the existing levels of funding they receive through local authorities for the two-year-old entitlement will reduce when the programme expands beyond 2014.

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Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

Alliance calls for comprehensive analysis of free places costs

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

Council backs down over funded places plans for nursery staff

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

Providers facing real-term funding cut while costs rise

Early Years Pupil Premium: Can nurseries make the EYPP work?

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

Study highlights barriers for childminders offering funded places

Osborne goes ahead with doubling of Childcare Business Grant funds

Nurseries must 'innovate' to make funding work, childcare minister says

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

Osborne looks to extend Childcare Business Grant

£2.3m early years bursary scheme attracts handful of applicants

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

Complaints spark Teach First review

Two-year-olds Q&A: Determined to extend reach

Childcare providers raise concerns over future funding of two-year-old scheme

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