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Department for Education clarifies position on deferring school entry for four-year-olds

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

| Nursery World

The DfE has confirmed that parents who defer their four-year-old's school place this September and keep their child at their early years setting will continue to be offered the 15-hour free entitlement.

Coram merges with Children's Legal Centre

News

Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's charity Coram has merged with the Children's Legal Centre, a charity concerned with law and policy affecting children.

Row over daycare stress claims

News

Monday, September 12, 2011

| Nursery World

The debate about whether childcare raises stress levels in young children is in the spotlight again, following a research review by controversial psychologist Aric Sigman.

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

News

Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours childcare policy could widen the gap between poorer children and their better-off peers, and should be axed unless it is properly funded, a leading education charity says today.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

News

Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

News

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nursery providers have warned that a two-tier system will be created, with children from disadvantaged families losing out on nursery places, following the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather in last week's Nursery World that the Government will not change the rules on the free entitlement and remove the ban on top-up fees.

Children's centres recognised for supporting grandparent carers

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Four children's centres in England have been recognised as hubs of good practice for their work supporting grandparents who provide childcare, as part of a new project by the Grandparents' Association and Daycare Trust.

Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start

News

Monday, May 22, 2017

| Nursery World

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

News

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.

More children’s centres at risk of closure

News

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

News

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.

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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.

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Department for Education clarifies position on deferring school entry for four-year-olds

Coram merges with Children's Legal Centre

Row over daycare stress claims

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

Children's centres recognised for supporting grandparent carers

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

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

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