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Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

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Friday, June 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Labour would abolish tax-free childcare if it come to power, the shadow childcare minister said today.

Revised safeguarding guidelines focus on the child

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

More focus needs to be placed on the needs of children revised Government guidelines on safeguarding state.

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Demand for childcare in the Netherlands has fallen sharply amid the economic crisis and cuts in childcare tax credits, leading to a huge rise in the number of centres going bankrupt.

Boris Johnson lends support to parenting course in primary schools

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Friday, September 23, 2011

| Nursery World

London mayor Boris Johnson has given his backing to the expansion of a scheme which offers free parenting classes to the parents of primary school children.

Leaked Clegg letter intensifies ratios row

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Friday, May 10, 2013

| Nursery World

The row over childcare ratios escalated last night after leaked letters between education and childcare minister Liz Truss and Nick Clegg came to light.

Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years

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Monday, September 17, 2018

| Nursery World

Investment in Sure Start has further declined with the Government spending just over £576 million on children's centres in 2017-18, compared with £1.8 billion in 2009-10.

Nursery schools twice as likely to be in deficit than schools

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

| Nursery World

New Government figures reveal in each of the last three years, the proportion of nursery schools in deficit has been double that of all schools.

Pre-school Learning Alliance to become the Early Years Alliance

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance will be changing its name to the Early Years Alliance from next year as part of plans to re-brand.

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

| Nursery World

The DfE is looking for a national training partner to take on the next stage of the Early Years Professional Development Fund, the children’s minister told delegates at the Nursery World Business Summit.

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

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Monday, November 26, 2018

| Nursery World

Nearly nine in ten providers offering the 30 hours in Wales agree that the rate is viable, according to findings from research into the early implementer phase of the scheme.

Cost-of-living crisis hits households with children the most – study

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Children’s learning and development are being impacted by the cost-of-living crisis, according to NatCen research, which highlights that poverty rates are higher for households with children.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledges to invest in early language intervention

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled a new target for half a million children to reach the EYFS Early Learning Goals by 2030, if the Labour party wins the next general election.

Nearly half of children under five live in 'childcare deserts'

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Monday, November 20, 2023

| Nursery World

More than 40 per cent of children live in local authorities that are ‘early education and care deserts’, where there are more than three children for every one registered place.

Ministers provide 'temporary fix' so parents can get their code for the extended hours

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Monday, January 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Ministers have actioned a last-minute ‘workaround’ to ensure that thousands of parents of two year-olds can get their codes to take-up a funded place.

London Mayor urged to take action on early years funding

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| Nursery World

The Mayor of London is being urged to lobby the Government to review funding rates for early years places.

£5bn shortfall in funding for extended ‘childcare’ offer

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

| Nursery World

There is a £5 billion per year gap between Government funding and the estimated cost of delivery to providers of the Government’s expanded childcare offer once fully rolled out, says think tank.

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Nursery World

The education secretary Gillian Keegan has said that an extra 40,000 staff will be needed to deliver the full rollout of the expanded 30 hours.

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector leaders and experts have welcomed the Chancellor’s focus on childcare reform in the Budget, but warn the funding promised will not solve the current crisis, and there is no detail as yet on funding rates for providers of the expanded 30-hour offer.

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

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Monday, April 3, 2023

| Nursery World

The Food Foundation is calling on ministers to do more to raise awareness of the Healthy Start scheme and increase its value and eligibility, after it failed to meet the Government’s own target for take-up among low-income families.

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

| Nursery World

YMCA, the largest charity provider of childcare in the UK, is closing four nurseries at the end of the month, and warns more could close, as years of underfunding and rates for 2023-24 leave early years providers ‘buckling under the strain’.

Getting the funding rates right will 'make or break' nurseries

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Nurseries warn that the promised increase in funding rates from September ‘fall well short’ of what they need to survive after years of underfunding.

Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

| Nursery World

A total of 14 local authorities have been chosen as trailblazers of the Family Hubs programme to support 'fast-track' delivery of services that the Government said would benefit thousands of families.

Truss considering axing childcare ratios altogether

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Friday, October 7, 2022

| Nursery World

Staff to child ratios in early years settings could be scrapped completely by the Prime Minister in a bid to make childcare cheaper, according to reports.

Making childminder agencies compulsory would lead to 'mass exodus' of profession – survey

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Friday, November 4, 2022

| Nursery World

More than three-quarters of Ofsted registered childminders would quit their job if it became compulsory to join an agency, reveals new research.

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Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

Revised safeguarding guidelines focus on the child

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

Boris Johnson lends support to parenting course in primary schools

Leaked Clegg letter intensifies ratios row

Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years

Nursery schools twice as likely to be in deficit than schools

Pre-school Learning Alliance to become the Early Years Alliance

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

Cost-of-living crisis hits households with children the most – study

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledges to invest in early language intervention

Nearly half of children under five live in 'childcare deserts'

Ministers provide 'temporary fix' so parents can get their code for the extended hours

London Mayor urged to take action on early years funding

£5bn shortfall in funding for extended ‘childcare’ offer

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

Getting the funding rates right will 'make or break' nurseries

Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

Truss considering axing childcare ratios altogether

Making childminder agencies compulsory would lead to 'mass exodus' of profession – survey

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