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Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'

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.

Link 30 hours to workforce development: PACEY

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Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Ministers should consider restricting the 30-hour offer to those settings that are graded Good or Outstanding, a leading early years organisation argues.

Kent promises to keep all 97 children's centres open

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

| Nursery World

Kent County Council has pledged to keep all 97 of its children's centres open.

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

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Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Cuts of 50 per child made to children's centres

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Sure Start and childcare funding is being cut by an average of 50 per child over the next financial year, according to new research, with some of the poorest areas of the country facing the biggest cuts.

Analysis: Ofsted inspections - Why go private?

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years settings are wondering what's in store for them when inspectors from private contractors turn up, says Karen Faux.

DfE claims ratio plans could slash fees by more than a quarter

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Friday, May 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to increase staff: child ratios in early years settings could see nurseries increasing their revenue by more than 200,000 a year, according to a DfE analysis.

Value of early years benchmarking tool in doubt as errors emerge

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Friday, August 17, 2012

| Nursery World

An analysis of the DfE's early years online funding tool by Nursery World has uncovered errors and figures that are not directly comparable, making it very difficult for nurseries to assess the free entitlement funding they are receiving.

London Assembly considers how to make childcare in the capital more affordable

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Friday, November 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Allowing local authorities to borrow money based on future business rates to fund the building of new nurseries, was just one suggestion made to London Assembly members to make childcare more affordable and accessible.

Ofsted annual report shows a rise in the number of 'outstanding' early years providers

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

| Nursery World

The quality of provision in early years settings has risen in the past year, according to the latest inspection figures from Ofsted, with more providers judged to be outstanding or good.

Childcare Commission - the Government wants your ideas

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The Government is calling on early years and childcare providers, parents and others to put forward their ideas about how to make childcare more affordable and accessible.

Cuts to red tape for childcare providers on the way

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Legislation in the Children and Families Bill, due to come before Parliament in January, will include plans to cut back on regulations for childcare providers, Nursery World has learned.

Analysis: Time to serve up regulation for nursery food

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Are all parties finally coming to agreement on what needs to be done to improve the food provided for nursery children? Karen Faux reports.

Last-chance bid to keep council nursery open

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

| Nursery World

Campaigners have succeeded in winning a reprieve for a council-run nursery in Brighton, after more than 5,000 people signed a petition to save it.

Council pays out Sure Start capital funding

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

| Nursery World

An Essex nursery that looked set to lose out on 1.2m from the Early Years Capital Grant has been told that the local authority will honour its contract and provide the funding.

Almost two-fifths of providers think 30 hours will lead to their closure

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Thursday, August 31, 2017

| Nursery World

According to the Pre-school Learning Alliance survey, 38 per cent of providers think their business won't be sustainable in 12 months' time as a result of the 30 hours policy.

Childcare costs stop low-income families from working

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

| Nursery World

Low-income families across the UK are having to turn down work or are considering leaving their jobs because they can't afford to pay for childcare, according to a new survey.

More than 11,000 childcare places lost through nursery closures - research

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

| Nursery World

The number of nursery closures in England increased by more than a third during the height of the pandemic compared to the same period the previous year, new analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association reveals.

Scottish health secretary claims nursery discriminated against two-year-old daughter

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Monday, August 2, 2021

| Nursery World

The Scottish health secretary Humza Yousaf has claimed that a nursery refused to offer his two-year-old daughter a place because she has a Muslim name.

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten early years settings are struggling to recruit staff and half of them are having to turn away new parents because of staff shortages, sector research suggests.

Nurseries at risk of collapse due to 'large corporate takeovers'

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report warns the nursery sector is ‘at threat of being damaged’ as smaller settings get taken over by large corporate companies that are ‘profit-focused’.

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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

Link 30 hours to workforce development: PACEY

Kent promises to keep all 97 children's centres open

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

Cuts of 50 per child made to children's centres

Analysis: Ofsted inspections - Why go private?

DfE claims ratio plans could slash fees by more than a quarter

Value of early years benchmarking tool in doubt as errors emerge

London Assembly considers how to make childcare in the capital more affordable

Ofsted annual report shows a rise in the number of 'outstanding' early years providers

Childcare Commission - the Government wants your ideas

Cuts to red tape for childcare providers on the way

Analysis: Time to serve up regulation for nursery food

Last-chance bid to keep council nursery open

Council pays out Sure Start capital funding

Almost two-fifths of providers think 30 hours will lead to their closure

Childcare costs stop low-income families from working

More than 11,000 childcare places lost through nursery closures - research

Scottish health secretary claims nursery discriminated against two-year-old daughter

Survey highlights 'sector-wide' early years workforce crisis

Nurseries at risk of collapse due to 'large corporate takeovers'

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