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Children to lose free places as council stops funding nurseries

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Three nurseries in Scotland have been told they will no longer receive funding for the early years entitlement, meaning that parents will have to move their children elsewhere or miss out on a free place.

Early years capital grant for nurseries could be withdrawn

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary settings that have applied for funding for improvements from the early years capital grant could lose out on millions of pounds.

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted has published its new Childminder agency handbook, along with the application forms that people will need if they wish to apply to become an agency.

Childcare costs survey: nursery fees rise by 6 per cent in a year

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Friday, February 24, 2012

| Nursery World

The growing gap between the cost of a nursery place and parents' earnings is revealed in the annual childcare costs survey.

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours childcare policy could widen the gap between poorer children and their better-off peers, and should be axed unless it is properly funded, a leading education charity says today.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

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Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nursery providers have warned that a two-tier system will be created, with children from disadvantaged families losing out on nursery places, following the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather in last week's Nursery World that the Government will not change the rules on the free entitlement and remove the ban on top-up fees.

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Just how local authorities split early years funding between private and voluntary nurseries and maintained provision in schools and nursery schools has long been a bone of contention.

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

| Nursery World

Labour has released more details of how it would offer 30-hour childcare to all two- to four-year-olds - 1.3m children - and reverse children’s centre cuts.

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government should invest in early years services to help fight child poverty, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility said in a speech yesterday.

Early years sector unites against plans to cut ratios

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Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Protests against any plans to lower staff child ratios for nurseries and childminders are gaining force against mounting anticipation of a Government announcement next week on changes to allow better qualified staff to look after more children.

Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Findings from a survey of providers, reveal that 89 per cent are likely to increase fees this year, while more than a third believe they will have to close their setting within the next year due to rising costs.

Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has broadly welcomed the Budget announcement to boost the number of childminders by introducing start-up grants, however expressed disappointment over a lack of support for those currently in the profession.

Early years action group to stage protest in March

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Monday, January 16, 2023

| Nursery World

A protest has been organised for the early years sector in London in two months' time.

Foundation Years: Government wants new 'covenant' with early years providers

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Monday, July 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Ministers are proposing a new way of working, building on the 'co-production' process, to draw up a 'covenant' between the early years sector, the DfE and local authorities.

Autumn statement 2011: sector reaction to rise in two-year-old places and tax credit freezes

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

| Nursery World

The early years sector has given a largely positive response to the Chancellor's announcement to extend the free entitlement to 40 per cent of two-year-olds by 2015.

Shock rise in VAT could force up nursery fees

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries may be forced to increase their fees to cope with the increase in VAT, early years organisations have warned.

NDNA Business Performance Survey December 2012 - A North-South divide for nursery prospects

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Many nurseries had a bumpy ride in the second half of 2012. Karen Faux reports on survey findings which provide key pointers for the year ahead.

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

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Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Local authorities will no longer have a role to improve quality in early years settings, leaving the future of the work of early years authority advisers and their teams unclear.

Enormous shortfall in two-year-old places predicted

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Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Some of the largest nursery groups in the country are concerned that a shortfall in the number of nursery places for disadvantaged two-year-olds could hamper Government plans to expand free nursery education, Nursery World has learned.

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Montessori settings will be expected to sign up to a new Code of Practice to endorse their professionalism and the quality of their early years provision.

Majority of early years sector oppose reforms

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

A survey by the National Children's Bureau reveals the extent to which the early years sector is opposed to the reforms in More Great Childcare, with the majority claiming they will have a detrimental effect on children, particularly disadvantaged two-year-olds.

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Research into the pilot of childminder agencies has been published by the Department for Education.

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Government launches child protection review

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove and children and families minister Tim Loughton last week invited Professor Eileen Munro from the London School of Economics to conduct an independent review of child protection and social work in England that will focus on how social workers can spend more time with vulnerable children.

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Children to lose free places as council stops funding nurseries

Early years capital grant for nurseries could be withdrawn

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

Childcare costs survey: nursery fees rise by 6 per cent in a year

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

Early years sector unites against plans to cut ratios

Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

Early years action group to stage protest in March

Foundation Years: Government wants new 'covenant' with early years providers

Autumn statement 2011: sector reaction to rise in two-year-old places and tax credit freezes

Shock rise in VAT could force up nursery fees

NDNA Business Performance Survey December 2012 - A North-South divide for nursery prospects

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

Enormous shortfall in two-year-old places predicted

New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

Majority of early years sector oppose reforms

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

Government launches child protection review

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