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MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

The Pre-School Learning Alliance joins forces with good causes shopping site

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Monday, September 2, 2013

| Nursery World

Next time you fancy a spot of guilt-free shopping bear in mind that you could also be raising funds for your favourite nursery or pre-school.

Margaret Hodge urges slow down on two-year-old expansion

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

| Nursery World

Former children’s minister Margaret Hodge said the Government should ‘hold their horses’ on the two-year-old offer and go slower, warning that to roll out places too quickly and compromise on quality would be a mistake.

Tax-free childcare - early years organisations call for direct funding

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

| Nursery World

Early years and childcare organisations responding to the Government's announcement that childcare vouchers will be extended to more working families are calling for a more simplified funding system that would pay providers directly.

Childcare providers to lobby MPs on 30 hours

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Over 100 nursery owners and practitioners are to gather in Parliament on 18 July to lobby MPs on the 30 hours.

£60m to expand 30 hours provision in Wales

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Friday, July 13, 2018

| Nursery World

The Welsh Government has committed £60m to develop more early years provision ahead of the introduction of the 30 hours.

Government urged to find funding solution to save nursery schools

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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

| Nursery World

A new report warns that if London's nursery schools, whose future is under threat, close then it will be detrimental to thousands of vulnerable children.

Major inquiry into the sustainability of the childcare sector launches

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Friday, November 2, 2018

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs and peers are to carry out a formal, select committee style investigation into the opportunities and challenges facing childcare providers.

Consultation opens on changes to way LAs fund providers

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Ministers plan to change the way that nurseries and childminders are funded through local authorities, in a move towards developing a new national funding formula for free early education places.

Sheffield grant funding cut raises fear settings will close

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Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

Twenty early years settings in Sheffield, the majority in the most deprived areas of the city, have had 3.6m in grant funding stopped by the city council.

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector organisations have welcomed Treasury plans to increase funding for childcare by £4 billion, but experts have warned ‘the devil is in the detail’, amid nurseries closing due to the ongoing underfunding and recruitment crisis.

Thousands turn out for 'March of the Mummies' childcare protest

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Monday, October 31, 2022

| Nursery World

The March of the Mummies attracted more than 15,000 people in 11 cities across the country to demand Government reform on childcare, parental leave and flexible working.

LEYF achieves £1.5m target to grow the business

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Friday, November 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Social enterprise LEYF has successfully raised £1.5m through its charity bond to help fund the acquisition of more nurseries.

Tens of millions of pounds in early years funding not reaching nurseries, survey reveals

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

| Nursery World

Local authorities have used more than £200m pounds over the last four years earmarked for early years funding to offset their deficits or prop up their reserves, according to an investigation by the National Day Nurseries Association, which described the findings as ‘shocking’.

Children’s minister pledges to re-examine local authority top-slicing of early years funding

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Friday, June 9, 2023

| Nursery World

The children’s minister has vowed to look again at the percentage of early years funding that local authorities are allowed to keep back from providers in the Early Years Funding Formula.

Iconic nursery school Coram faces closure amid rent hike and accuses namesake charity of abandoning it

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

| Nursery World

One of England’s oldest and most renowned nursery schools is facing closure because the charity that originally helped to set it up plans to double its rent and cut its provision in half.

NW Business Summit: No plans to remove the word 'free' from the 15 and 30 hours, says children's minister

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Monday, February 5, 2024

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has no plans to remove the word ‘free’ when describing and advertising the funded entitlements, the children and families minister David Johnston told delegates at Nursery World’s Business Summit on Friday (2 February).

Bolton settings tell council they may be forced to close

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Monday, February 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Close to half of early years settings in Bolton say they could become financially inviable in the next two years.

Sheffield parents challenge council on funding

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Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

A group of Sheffield parents go to the High Court this week in their challenge to the city council's decision to stop grant funding in 20 community nurseries in the most deprived areas of the city.

DfE 30 hours report lays bare the challenges for providers

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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government-commissioned evaluation of the first year of the 30 hours programme shows the impact the policy is having on childcare settings, local authorities and parents, revealing significant challenges for many.

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MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

The Pre-School Learning Alliance joins forces with good causes shopping site

Margaret Hodge urges slow down on two-year-old expansion

Tax-free childcare - early years organisations call for direct funding

Childcare providers to lobby MPs on 30 hours

£60m to expand 30 hours provision in Wales

Government urged to find funding solution to save nursery schools

Major inquiry into the sustainability of the childcare sector launches

Consultation opens on changes to way LAs fund providers

Sheffield grant funding cut raises fear settings will close

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

Thousands turn out for 'March of the Mummies' childcare protest

LEYF achieves £1.5m target to grow the business

Tens of millions of pounds in early years funding not reaching nurseries, survey reveals

Children’s minister pledges to re-examine local authority top-slicing of early years funding

Iconic nursery school Coram faces closure amid rent hike and accuses namesake charity of abandoning it

NW Business Summit: No plans to remove the word 'free' from the 15 and 30 hours, says children's minister

Bolton settings tell council they may be forced to close

Sheffield parents challenge council on funding

DfE 30 hours report lays bare the challenges for providers

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