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Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

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.

New framework for childminder agency inspection released

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| Nursery World

Childminding agencies will either be judged as ‘effective’ or ‘non-effective’ by Ofsted during their inspections, new guidance reveals.

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.

Food quality may be hit by 30 hours offer

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Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

The quality of food that children eat in their early years settings could suffer as an unintended consequence of introducing the 30-hour childcare entitlement, findings from a joint survey carried out by Nursery World and the Children’s Food Trust suggest.

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

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Friday, January 8, 2016

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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.

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.

University nurseries face closure

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

A number of nurseries operated by universities and colleges across the UK are under threat or due to close, as they claim too few students are taking up places.

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

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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.

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.

Spending Review: Chancellor reveals more details of 30-hour childcare

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

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Parents will need to work 16 hours a week to be eligible for 30 hours of free childcare from 2017, the Chancellor has confirmed.

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.

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.

Clash over GCSE equivalents

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Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

A leading group of employers are at loggerheads with the Government over equivalents to GCSEs for early years qualifications.

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.

Budget cuts result in fewer hours and reduced services at children’s centres

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Monday, November 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Children’s centres are having to reduce their opening hours and scale back or charge for services because of cuts to their budgets.

Providers' failure to provide detailed costs leaves DfE in the dark

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Monday, October 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Most of the providers who responded to the Government’s call for evidence on funded places did not give figures, leaving the Department for Education unable to understand the costs of providing free hours.

Government abandons GCSE rules for Early Years Teachers

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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Early Years Teachers will no longer need GCSE English and Maths at grade C and above to count in Level 3 workforce ratios, following yet another Government revision to qualification requirements.

GCSE rules scrapped for standalone Level 3 EYEs

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Friday, July 31, 2015

| Nursery World

The requirement for those taking standalone Level 3 Early Years Educator courses to have GCSE English and Maths at Grade C or above before starting the qualification has been removed just before the new funding year begins on 1 August.