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Family and friends give each other hundreds of pounds a year in financial help

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

| Nursery World

Families are increasingly providing financial and practical support such as childminding to help friends make ends meet, according to a new report.

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.

Charities lobby for foster children to access 30 hours childcare

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Thursday, November 9, 2017

| Nursery World

A group of charities have written to the children and families minister urging him to extend the 30-hours of funded childcare to foster carers.

Married with 2.4 children no longer 'typical family'

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

| Nursery World

Eight out of ten people would describe their family as not 'traditional', according to new research which suggests the family of two married parents with 2.4 children is no longer the norm.

Obesity risk doubles between Reception and Year 6

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

| Nursery World

The number of reception class children who are overweight or obese has dropped slightly, according to the latest statistics.

Boris axes London childcare team

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

| Nursery World

London mayor Boris Johnson has scrapped the London Development Agency's dedicated childcare team to focus on youth and volunteering.

Interview: Angus Holford

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Friday, September 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Angus Holford, author of a new study, Take-up of Free School Meals: price effects and peer effects, published by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.

Educators weigh up academy opt-out offer for primary schools

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Friday, May 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Primary head teachers have been weighing up the pros and cons of opting out of local authority control following education secretary Michael Gove's invitation for state primary schools to become academies.

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.

Sector quick to respond to the EYFS review

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years organisations and the childcare workforce have given a mixed reaction to the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather that the Government is to review the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Cuts to children's play confirmed by education secretary

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

| Nursery World

Cuts of more than 169.5m are to be made to a range of projects aimed at children and young people, education secretary Michael Gove has confirmed in a letter to local authorities.

Government launches consultation on EYFS review

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Monday, August 2, 2010

| Nursery World

The early years workforce is being urged to submit evidence towards the independent review of the EYFS, with a consultation launched online today.

Schools misdiagnosing children with special educational needs

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

Thousands of children are being wrongly diagnosed as having a special educational need, when they require better teaching or pastoral care instead, claims a report by Ofsted.

Government funding to expand work of FGM centre

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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

| Nursery World

A £30m Government grant will allow the National FGM Centre to continue its work to stop female genital mutilation (FGM).

BREAKING NEWS from the Comprehensive Spending Review

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Funding for the 15-hour free entitlement for all three- and four-year-olds will continue, Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed in his speech outlining the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review.

School support staff and nursery nurses' pay body axed

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Nursery nurses and teaching assistants have lost the right to have their pay and conditions set nationally, after Education Secretary Michael Gove confirmed he was scrapping the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.

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.

Lib Dem leader gives backing to Champagne Nurseries campaign

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Monday, May 8, 2017

| Nursery World

The Champagne Nurseries, Lemonade Funding campaign group has secured the support of Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron.

UKIP manifesto: parents can use unregulated childcare for funded hours

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

| Nursery World

Parents would be able to take the free entitlement at unregulated childcare settings under a UKIP government.

Opinion: Editor's View - Elizabeth Truss - a force for good?

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Friday, September 14, 2012

| Nursery World

Looking back, the appointment of Elizabeth Truss as parliamentary under-secretary of state for education and childcare has had a certain inevitability about it.

Ed Balls criticises Tory plans to cut universal Sure Start services

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's secretary Ed Balls has criticised Conservative Party plans for children's centres to serve only the most disadvantaged families.

Schools with the poorest children set to be hit hardest by future funding cuts

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Friday, March 3, 2017

| Nursery World

The 1,000 schools with the highest number of children receiving free school meals are facing much higher cuts in funding per pupil than schools generally, new research has revealed.

Greening announces merger of education and skills funding

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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The Education Funding Agency and the Skills Funding Agency are merging to create one body, the education secretary announced in Parliament today.

Interview - Ivana La Valle - Director of NCB Research Centre

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Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The DfE has announced 26 trials in local authorities of payment-by-results for Sure Start Children's Centres. The NCB, with the National Foundation for Educational Research, carried out the initial study, which looks at how the scheme might operate and analyses the pros and cons of different measures.

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Family and friends give each other hundreds of pounds a year in financial help

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

Charities lobby for foster children to access 30 hours childcare

Married with 2.4 children no longer 'typical family'

Obesity risk doubles between Reception and Year 6

Boris axes London childcare team

Interview: Angus Holford

Educators weigh up academy opt-out offer for primary schools

Shock rise in VAT could force up nursery fees

Sector quick to respond to the EYFS review

Cuts to children's play confirmed by education secretary

Government launches consultation on EYFS review

Schools misdiagnosing children with special educational needs

Government funding to expand work of FGM centre

BREAKING NEWS from the Comprehensive Spending Review

School support staff and nursery nurses' pay body axed

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

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

Lib Dem leader gives backing to Champagne Nurseries campaign

UKIP manifesto: parents can use unregulated childcare for funded hours

Opinion: Editor's View - Elizabeth Truss - a force for good?

Ed Balls criticises Tory plans to cut universal Sure Start services

Schools with the poorest children set to be hit hardest by future funding cuts

Greening announces merger of education and skills funding

Interview - Ivana La Valle - Director of NCB Research Centre

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