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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Ceeda director Dr Jo Verrill unpicks the Government’s response to queries about how a range of costs have been accounted for in its 30-hour funding review - and finds some concerning gaps

Funding - Missing pieces in the 30-hour funding review

Monday, March 21, 2016

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The Government’s Review of childcare costs is supposed to set the sector’s mind at rest – but it only muddies the water further, says Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance

Nursery Management: Ratios - Keeping it in proportion

Monday, March 21, 2016

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Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad

Nursery Management: Business - Costs cocktail

Monday, March 21, 2016

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How is the impact of the 30 hours, National Living Wage and other increased business costs going to be felt across the sector? Hannah Crown reports

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Monday, March 21, 2016

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Research commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its review into the cost of expanding free childcare to 30 hours is not held by the DfE, Nursery World can reveal, despite being quoted 50 times in a key report.

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

Thursday, March 17, 2016

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Measure in yesterday's Budget set to affect the early years sector include a cut to business rates, a sugar levy and an extension to childcare vouchers.

The childcare market isn't working

Friday, March 4, 2016

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Stephen Burke says that there is a looming crisis for the childcare market as new initiatives roll out

Poorer children could miss out on free childcare places, NAO warns

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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Failure to get the funding right for the 30-hour childcare policy could lead to cuts to places for disadvantaged two-year-olds, the Government’s independent spending watchdog claims today.

NDNA survey: most settings wary of 30 hours

Monday, February 22, 2016

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The latest NDNA survey finds funding and the 30 hours policy causing nurseries concern

House of Commons nursery 'viable' despite £1m bill

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

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The House of Commons has declared its nursery ‘viable’ following a number of years spent loss-making.

HMRC tells childminders to repay thousands in tax credits

Monday, January 25, 2016

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Childminders must now prove their business is being run to make a profit or could be forced to repay thousands of pounds in backdated tax credits.

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

Monday, January 25, 2016

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Nurseries are considering fee rises of up to seven per cent to help pay for the new ‘living wage’, according to property expert Courteney Donaldson.

Time for action on men in childcare

Monday, January 25, 2016

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With the proportion of men working in early years stuck at just two per cent, it's time for the Government to set recruitment targets to address the gender imbalance once and for all, says David Wright.

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

Friday, January 22, 2016

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4Children is supporting nurseries, schools and local authorities to open childminder agencies in a new push by the Department for Education to expand the scheme across England.

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Monday, December 14, 2015

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Following the announcements made in the Chancellor’s Autumn Spending Review, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of research agency Ceeda, examines how providers will be affected financially

Nurseries warn that the national living wage will push up fees

Thursday, December 10, 2015

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Nursery employers have ‘major concerns’ over the need to increase fees for parents in order to pay staff the National Living Wage, a report by Christie + Co reveals.

Nurseries and childminders gain right to ask to run school site provision

Monday, December 7, 2015

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Childcare providers will be able to ask schools if they can use their premises to run before and after-school and holiday childcare when they are not using them.

Spending Review: Chancellor reveals more details of 30-hour childcare

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

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Parents will need to work 16 hours a week to be eligible for 30 hours of free childcare from 2017, the Chancellor has confirmed.

Unpaid overtime props up sector

Monday, November 16, 2015

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Nurseries are relying on the ‘goodwill’ of staff to work unpaid overtime, according to a new survey by the education professionals’ union Voice.

Nursery Chains: Policy - Doubling up

Monday, November 16, 2015

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The free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds with working parents will increase to 30 hours in 2017,but a trial is taking place next year. Charlotte Goddard meets some of those taking part

Close to six million people earning less than a living wage

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

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New research suggests that 5.84 million people are paid less than the Living Wage and of these 280,000 work in the childcare and related personal services sector.

Nursery Management exclusive: Childminding - Counting the cost

Monday, September 21, 2015

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The impact of underfunding of the free entitlement for childminders has been revealed - with two thirds making a loss. Charlotte Goddard reports.

Exclusive: Living wage to create funding gap of hundreds of millions

Monday, August 24, 2015

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The introduction of the 'national living wage' (NLW) next April will push the nursery sector into a deficit running into hundreds of millions of pounds without serious commitment from the Government to reforming the system of childcare funding.

Funding - the hard facts