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Interview - Jean Gross

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The outgoing communication champion, who this week published a final report.

Spring Budget 2017: Chancellor accused of 'ignoring' early years sector in favour of pubs

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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery owners have accused Chancellor Philip Hammond of prioritising support for pubs over nurseries, as he announced plans to offer some business rate relief in his Spring Budget speech.

Free nursery places funding 'must reach frontline providers'

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Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years organisations responding to the Government consultation on the proposed changes to the entitlement to free early education and childcare sufficiency have stressed that funding must reach the frontline.

Scotland's Blueprint for 2020 sets out early years and childcare plans

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Friday, March 24, 2017

| Nursery World

A model for free early education and childcare that involves funding following the child and the Living Wage for private nursery staff are included in the plans.

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

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Monday, March 27, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.

Tax-Free Childcare runs into problems

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Monday, May 15, 2017

| Nursery World

Two weeks after its launch, both childcare providers and parents are experiencing difficulties with the Tax-Free Childcare scheme.

EYPS and the Nutbrown Review: Threat or opportunity?

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Cathy Nutbrown's recommendations for EYPS in her recent review of qualifications have fuelled heated debate. Karen Faux finds out why opinion is so divided and what it could mean for the status.

PVI sector's voice not heard on schools forums

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Monday, June 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance is calling for a shake-up of the way local authority education funding decisions are made.

Cutting ratios no solution, says early years expert

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

| Nursery World

A leading academic has spoken out against Government plans to allow nursery staff and childminders to care for more children, warning that international evidence shows that relaxing ratios damages the quality of provision - even if staff are well-qualified.

Revised EYFS rejected by leading research centre

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

Pen Green, the research centre recently appointed by the Department for Education to lead on raising standards in early years settings, has 'rejected' the revised Early Years Foundation Stage.

Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock

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Friday, February 17, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government has dispensed with the Early Years Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group following a long-running stand-off over the inclusion of ‘reasonable equivalents’ to GCSE English and Maths in the new Level 3 apprenticeship standard.

Private and voluntary nurseries lose out on nursery funding, new survey finds

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nurseries are continuing to receive on average substantially less funding for free nursery education than nurseries in the maintained sector, research by the National Day Nurseries Association has revealed.

Number of children in free nursery education rises

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

| Nursery World

More than 86 per cent of all three- and four-year-olds accessing the free entitlement are taking up the full 15-hour offer, according to the latest Government figures.

EYFS review: 'Slimmed down' EYFS and payment by results for Sure Start children's centres

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

| Nursery World

The number of early learning goals in the EYFS will be radically reduced, in plans set out by the Government in its response to the Tickell review.

Scotland releases details of 30-hour pilots

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has named the three local authorities that will trial delivery of its expanded early learning and childcare scheme next year.

Minister says providers are 'up for it' in 30 hours debate

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Thursday, October 12, 2017

| Nursery World

Children and Families Minister Robert Goodwill said he is ‘living in a parallel universe’ when it comes to the 30 hours at a Parliamentary debate today.

Welsh providers urged to have their say on 30-hour childcare

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

| Nursery World

Nurseries, childminders and pre-schools are being asked for their views on the 30 hours offer in Wales.

Childcare is becoming dangerously unaffordable

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Ryan Shorthouse, researcher at the Social Market Foundation, says that action is needed to stop childcare costs rising out of the reach of families

Nurseries will be inspected following major complaints

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Monday, January 9, 2012

| Nursery World

In future most nurseries and childminders will receive a full inspection if complaints are made to Ofsted about the setting, in proposals now out for consultation.

Early years staff under stress due to unmanageable workload – survey

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years educators are struggling with their workload, with over a fifth reporting that they ‘frequently’ have ‘too much’ on.

Book your spot at our free business webinar on expanded childcare

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

| Nursery World

The expansion of funded childcare brings with it both opportunities and challenges for early years settings of all sizes to manage, with an increase to administration and paperwork.

Government to launch consultation on childcare ratio changes before summer

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Friday, May 13, 2022

| Nursery World

The children and families minister Will Quince has confirmed today that the Department for Education will consult 'before the summer' on plans to raise the number of two-year-olds that one member of staff can care for in early years settings in England from four to five.

Standards unveiled for new early years qualifications

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Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

The long-awaited standards for Early Years Educators and Early Years Teachers have been published.

Early years providers leave childcare market

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

| Nursery World

The latest Ofsted statistics reveal that the numbers of both nurseries and childminders have dropped over the five months to 31 August.

First glimpse of new inspections framework shows improvements for childminders

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

| Nursery World

Childminders have performed better than nurseries in initial results from the first two months of the new inspections framework.

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Interview - Jean Gross

Spring Budget 2017: Chancellor accused of 'ignoring' early years sector in favour of pubs

Free nursery places funding 'must reach frontline providers'

Scotland's Blueprint for 2020 sets out early years and childcare plans

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

Tax-Free Childcare runs into problems

EYPS and the Nutbrown Review: Threat or opportunity?

PVI sector's voice not heard on schools forums

Cutting ratios no solution, says early years expert

Revised EYFS rejected by leading research centre

Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock

Private and voluntary nurseries lose out on nursery funding, new survey finds

Number of children in free nursery education rises

EYFS review: 'Slimmed down' EYFS and payment by results for Sure Start children's centres

Scotland releases details of 30-hour pilots

Minister says providers are 'up for it' in 30 hours debate

Welsh providers urged to have their say on 30-hour childcare

Childcare is becoming dangerously unaffordable

Nurseries will be inspected following major complaints

Early years staff under stress due to unmanageable workload – survey

Book your spot at our free business webinar on expanded childcare

Government to launch consultation on childcare ratio changes before summer

Standards unveiled for new early years qualifications

Early years providers leave childcare market

First glimpse of new inspections framework shows improvements for childminders

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