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Mixed response to DfE's new model agreement

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  • Monday, March 6, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Early years settings will not be able to force parents to pay for extras as a condition of taking up a free childcare place, the Department for Education has reiterated in a model agreement.

Early years research programme to plug 'analysis gap'

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  • Monday, March 6, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Thousands of nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are being invited to take part in a new independent research programme, set up to address the perceived gap in robust analysis of the early years sector.

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.

Charge for extras to make 30 hours viable, Minister tells nurseries

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  • Tuesday, February 14, 2017
  • | Nursery World
Early years minister Caroline Dinenage has told private nursery owners that they must charge parents for additional services if their viability is threatened by 30 hours funding rates that are less than the fees they charge outside the free entitlement.

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