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Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

Thursday, March 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The YouTube video has been launched by a group of nursery owners to campaign against the government’s policies on the free entitlement.

Call for independent review after DfE response to funding queries

News

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

Opinion

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

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

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

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

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Thursday, March 17, 2016

| Nursery World

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

Opinion

Friday, March 4, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

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

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

News

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

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

Opinion

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Friday, January 22, 2016

| Nursery World

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.