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

Thursday, April 4, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Government told action is needed on the cost-of-living crisis to protect children

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

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Educational psychologists and social workers have warned that without urgent UK Government action to fight the cost-of-living crisis, more children will be taken into care.

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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Community, which represents early years professionals, is launching its Early Years Charter, which sets out the 'key' workforce changes it would like the Government to implement.

Call for more maintained schools to open as they continue to outperform academies

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

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Local authority-run schools continue to ‘outshine’ those converted to academies, according to new research by the Local Government Association (LGA).

'Babies' strapped to statues to highlight how fathers are 'left at sea' with paternity leave policy

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

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‘Babies’ have been strapped to five out of 100 statues in Crosby today in a stunt to represent the 5 per cent of dads who access shared parental leave, a policy which the campaign group behind the event says has ‘failed on every measure’.

Early years experts claim the DfE has deemed them 'unsuitable' for events after monitoring their social media

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

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Trainer Ruth Swailes and early years lecturer, Aaron Bradbury, claim the DfE has been monitoring their activity on social media and deemed them ‘unsuitable’ to speak at Government events.

MPs to consider how financial education can be taught to primary pupils

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

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Cross-party MPs have launched an inquiry into how financial education can be strengthened throughout primary school.

Petition calls on Government to make VAT zero-rated for early years settings

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Friday, November 3, 2023

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An early years consultant has launched a petition calling on the Government to make VAT zero rated for early years settings and replace funding for places with a new ‘support grant’.

Ofsted puts school inspections on hold for mental health training for inspectors, but early years inspections will continue

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

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The new chief inspector of Ofsted has halted routine Ofsted inspections in schools until later in January to allow all inspectors to attend mental health training – however in a move criticised by the sector, early years inspections will continue.

Labour says Chancellor's plans to expand childcare are 'in absolute tatters'

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Monday, March 4, 2024

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has claimed that the Government is ‘on track’ with its plans to expand childcare for parents, in response to Labour claims that it has a dossier that shows that the Conservatives’ plans are ‘in absolute tatters’.

How 'A Better Start' areas support families and babies against backdrop of shortages to midwives and health visitors

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Friday, March 1, 2024

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A new report on maternity and antenatal support by the National Lottery Community Fund and the National Children’s Bureau highlights the challenges faced by the midwifery and health visiting workforce, and highlights partnership working in the five 'A Better Start' areas of England.

Sector calls for 'rescue and reform' of early education and childcare

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Friday, May 17, 2024

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A manifesto from over 30 organisations within the early years sector calls for childcare costs to be reduced, a new workforce strategy implemented and fair and sustainable funding.

General Election 2024: Early years settings share who (or what) gets their vote

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Thursday, July 4, 2024

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As those aged 18 and over go to the polls, tomorrow's voters have been casting their votes in the ballot box, and learning about what happens in a general election.

Hundreds of thousands of families impacted by two-child benefits cap

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Thursday, July 11, 2024

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More than 400,000 families are being ‘denied vital support’ because of the two-child benefits cap, reveal official statistics.

Coronavirus: Council provides £300,000 to keep settings open for Easter break

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Monday, April 6, 2020

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Nottinghamshire County Council is funding PVI early years settings with an extra £300,000 during the Easter holidays, to help them stay open for critical workers and vulnerable children.

One in four childcare providers fear permanent closure amid virus lockdown

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

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A quarter of early years settings are unlikely to be operating in 12 months’ time, as as the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic hits, a survey suggests.

Thousands sign petition against Government cut to furlough funding for nurseries

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Monday, April 20, 2020

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Thousands of childcare providers and parents have signed a petition calling for the Government to reinstate full furlough funding, after a previous commitment to pay early years staff under the coronavirus job retention scheme was watered down on Friday evening.

Coronavirus: Teaching unions warn against premature reopening of schools

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

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Teaching unions have written to the Government urging them to exercise ‘significant caution’ when it comes to the reopening of schools.

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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

Government told action is needed on the cost-of-living crisis to protect children

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

Call for more maintained schools to open as they continue to outperform academies

'Babies' strapped to statues to highlight how fathers are 'left at sea' with paternity leave policy

Early years experts claim the DfE has deemed them 'unsuitable' for events after monitoring their social media

MPs to consider how financial education can be taught to primary pupils

Petition calls on Government to make VAT zero-rated for early years settings

Ofsted puts school inspections on hold for mental health training for inspectors, but early years inspections will continue

Labour says Chancellor's plans to expand childcare are 'in absolute tatters'

How 'A Better Start' areas support families and babies against backdrop of shortages to midwives and health visitors

Sector calls for 'rescue and reform' of early education and childcare

General Election 2024: Early years settings share who (or what) gets their vote

Hundreds of thousands of families impacted by two-child benefits cap

Coronavirus: Council provides £300,000 to keep settings open for Easter break

One in four childcare providers fear permanent closure amid virus lockdown

Thousands sign petition against Government cut to furlough funding for nurseries

Coronavirus: Teaching unions warn against premature reopening of schools

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