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

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.

More children’s centres at risk of closure

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

| Nursery World

The future of more than 90 children’s centres across three local authority areas hangs in the balance as councils look to make savings to their budgets.

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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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.

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

| Nursery World

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

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.

Call for early years settings to join in Sport Relief

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years settings are invited to take part in Sport Relief 2012 on 23 March to raise money for vulnerable people all over the world.

Scottish Government launches quality childcare action plan

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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has moved to strengthen the quality of childcare years in advance of its target to double its funded offer.

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government should invest in early years services to help fight child poverty, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility said in a speech yesterday.

MPs call for single funding system for early years and primary education

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs, examining the Early Years Single Funding Formula, has recommended that the Government consider introducing a unified funding system for all children in education from the age of two to 11.

DfE figures show more two-year-olds in schools

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

| Nursery World

The number of two-year-olds in nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools has risen in the last three years.

NICE advice focuses on emotional and social well-being of under-fives

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Friday, October 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners should be 'systematic and persistent' in encouraging vulnerable parents to use early years services, new NHS guidance on the social and emotional well-being of under-fives states.

Childminder's tipi

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Resourceful children turned their childminder's garden into a campsite when they ceated a tipi. The children, who are minded by Caroline Bennett from Basingstoke, used a shower curtain and canes from an allotment to construct the tipi to mark Children's Art Week on 5-9 July.

Childminder numbers and childcare places continue to fall but at a slower rate

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

| Nursery World

The number of childminders is continuing to fall but to a lesser degree than the previous quarter, according to the latest Ofsted figures.

New twist to male recruitment drive

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

| Nursery World

A local authority that has been campaigning to get more men into childcare has added two podcasts to its recruitment drive.

Nursery worker appears in court charged with sexual abuse

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Friday, January 7, 2011

| Nursery World

A 20-year-old nursery assistant has been charged with two counts of child rape following a police investigation at a Birmingham setting.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - Little Acorns Stanlaw in Ellesmere Port

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

| Nursery World

Children at Little Acorns Stanlaw in Ellesmere Port , Cheshire, tried their hand at some DIY using real tools.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - Alderman Leach Primary School

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Four-year-olds Daniel McGuire and Ruby Preston from Alderman Leach Primary School in Darlington, Co Durham, drew pictures of the setting's outdoor area in a free-flow activity where staff provided baskets of logs, twig pencils, clipboards, sticks and tree stumps.

Childminders' professionalism at risk with introduction of agencies

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Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector has urged caution over plans to introduce childminding agencies, as set out in the Children and Families Bill.

Play England loses all Government contracts

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

| Nursery World

National play organisation Play England has lost all its Government funding.

EYFS REVIEW special - what it means for you and your practice

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

| Nursery World

Emerging after eight months of consultation with parents, carers, local authorities, academics and professional organisations and following countless visits to early years settings and a thorough examination of research evidence, the outcomes of Dame ClareTickell's review of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) have finally been revealed.

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

More children’s centres at risk of closure

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

Thousands of parents unable to access a 30-hour place

Call for early years settings to join in Sport Relief

Scottish Government launches quality childcare action plan

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

MPs call for single funding system for early years and primary education

DfE figures show more two-year-olds in schools

NICE advice focuses on emotional and social well-being of under-fives

Childminder's tipi

Childminder numbers and childcare places continue to fall but at a slower rate

New twist to male recruitment drive

Nursery worker appears in court charged with sexual abuse

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - Little Acorns Stanlaw in Ellesmere Port

PHOTO OF THE WEEK - Alderman Leach Primary School

Childminders' professionalism at risk with introduction of agencies

Play England loses all Government contracts

EYFS REVIEW special - what it means for you and your practice

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