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Council to ask parents if local childcare provision is sufficient

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

| Nursery World

A survey being carried out on behalf of Devon County Council aims to find out if local childcare provision is meeting the needs of parents and carers.

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.

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.

EYSFF will force us to shut, say settings

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

One in ten early years settings surveyed by the Pre-School Learning Alliance say they will have to close if the introduction of the Early Years Single Funding Formula results in a loss in funding.

VAT rise could force up nursery fees

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries may be forced to increase their fees to cope with the increase in VAT, childcare experts have warned.

Nursery chains slam 'inadequate' Children and Young People's Workforce diploma

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Monday, June 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Dissent is growing among major nursery providers over inadequacies in the content of the new Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce.

DfE consults sector on GCSE rules in wake of protest

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has finally responded to vocal concerns from the sector about the need to revise the GCSE rules for Level 3 early years workers, amid the recruitment crisis.

Exclusive: The Minister's View - To each child a fair start

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

| Nursery World

I'm sure you all watched with interest the Chancellor's Spending Review announcement on Wednesday of last week.

Analysis: Sure Start Children's Centres - Centres saved amid the wave of cuts

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

What are local authorities doing to resist the pressure to close children's centres - and why do they consider it important? Melanie Defries reports.

Interview - Lea Dryburgh, Morningside Children's Nursery, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

News

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Lea is one of eight nursery nurses who formed a workplace co-operative to take over the management of the nursery. Labour leader Ed Miliband recently visited the nursery.

Childcare Commission: Bad timing of consultation will limit response

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Friday, August 17, 2012

| Nursery World

The early years sector has raised concerns that the timing of the Government's Childcare Commission consultation, over the summer holidays and during the Olympics, will limit the number of practitioners that respond to the call for evidence.

Interview - Elizabeth Gardiner, Head of Policy at Working Families

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Friday, August 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Elizabeth Gardiner talks about the need for atypical hours childcare

Analysis: Early years capital funding - Hopes for projects demolished

News

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years providers are finding sustainability knocked from underneath them by cuts to their building projects. Melanie Defries reports.

'Earning less is better than not getting the business'

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Nursery World's facebook page was inundated with comments last week, as childcare providers debated the issue of increased financial pressure on parents' incomes, versus raising fees to cope with the rise in provider costs.

Minister answers MPs on Sure Start

News

Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

New statutory guidance for Sure Start children's centres will soon be up for consultation with the Government, Sarah Teather told a committee of MPs this week.

Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

| Nursery World

Nurseries in Wales are struggling to stay afloat due to low funding rates and rising business costs, according to findings from the NDNA’s annual survey.

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.

Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

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Friday, December 4, 2015

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed that there will be a workforce strategy established next year.

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.

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

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Friday, January 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has written to sector organisations to notify them of Government plans to consult on a rise to the annual Ofsted fees for childcare providers.

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Council to ask parents if local childcare provision is sufficient

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

Study highlights barriers for childminders offering funded places

EYSFF will force us to shut, say settings

VAT rise could force up nursery fees

Nursery chains slam 'inadequate' Children and Young People's Workforce diploma

DfE consults sector on GCSE rules in wake of protest

Exclusive: The Minister's View - To each child a fair start

Analysis: Sure Start Children's Centres - Centres saved amid the wave of cuts

Interview - Lea Dryburgh, Morningside Children's Nursery, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Childcare Commission: Bad timing of consultation will limit response

Interview - Elizabeth Gardiner, Head of Policy at Working Families

Analysis: Early years capital funding - Hopes for projects demolished

'Earning less is better than not getting the business'

Minister answers MPs on Sure Start

Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'

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

Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

Nurseries and childminders gain right to ask to run school site provision

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

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