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Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start

Monday, May 22, 2017

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The Green Party manifesto offers free universal early education and childcare to all children, with formal education starting at seven.

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.

International study calls for more early years funding to close the gap

News

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| Nursery World

The OECD has welcomed the expansion of 30 hours of funded childcare but urged governments to do more to improve access to quality provision for disadvantaged children.

Early years funding fails to keep pace with inflation

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Friday, June 16, 2017

| Nursery World

More than a quarter of local authorities’ early years funding rates have seen real-terms cuts over the past five years, Pre-school Learning Alliance research reveals.

Analysis: Political parties tell us their childcare priorities

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

| Nursery World

With just one week to go before the General Election, we assess the mood of the early years sector and ask the three main political parties to explain their policies

Poverty to come under review

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead, is to lead an independent review into poverty.

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

| Nursery World

Loopholes in Ofsted's Voluntary Childcare Register (VCR) mean that the inspectorate is approving nannies with inadequate documentation who in some cases do not even have the right to work in the UK, childcare agencies have warned.

Labour promises £500m to reverse Sure Start cuts

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

| Nursery World

A Labour Government would bring in a ring-fenced grant of £500m a year for children’s centres and offer universal early education for two-to four-year-olds.

Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

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Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s decision to bring back a baseline assessment in Reception, just two years after it was forced to scrap the previous attempt, is a controversial one (see Analysis, page 14).

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

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More nurseries made a loss last year than in the previous ten years, according to a Government-commissioned survey.

Open EYE launches network to 'save childhood'

News

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

| Nursery World

The group behind the book Too much, too soon? has set up a new campaign to protect childhood.

Tax on chocolate and fizzy drinks proposed by anti-obesity campaigner

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum has suggested that a tax on sugar should be introduced, following the Prime Minister's decision to consider placing a surcharge on fatty foods to tackle Britain's growing obesity levels.

Families struggle, as cost of food soars

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

| Nursery World

One in six parents in the UK has gone without a meal so that they can put food on the table for their family, according to new research.

Thousands of parents unable to access a 30-hour place

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Thursday, October 12, 2017

| Nursery World

More than 21,000 codes issued to parents for the 30 hours by the end of August have still not been validated by providers or local authorities.

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Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start

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

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

International study calls for more early years funding to close the gap

Early years funding fails to keep pace with inflation

Analysis: Political parties tell us their childcare priorities

Poverty to come under review

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

Labour promises £500m to reverse Sure Start cuts

Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

Open EYE launches network to 'save childhood'

Tax on chocolate and fizzy drinks proposed by anti-obesity campaigner

Families struggle, as cost of food soars

Thousands of parents unable to access a 30-hour place

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