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Consultation opens on changes to way LAs fund providers

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.

Childcare minister claims 30 hours success but ready to listen

News

Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Minister for children and families Robert Goodwill has insisted most nurseries are able to make the 30 hours offer work and parents are happy to pay for extras.

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

News

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.

Brett Wigdortz: Landlords should be encouraged to accommodate childminders, but so should local authorities

Opinion

Monday, September 4, 2023

| Nursery World

An inability to obtain landlord permission is one of the most common reasons trainee childminders leave our registration process, says the chief executive of Tiney childminding agency.

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

Home deeds stop childminders from working

News

Monday, August 20, 2018

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Childminders could be stopped from running businesses from home on new developments

Ex Montessori boss: Fraud trial set for 2017

News

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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Former Montessori chief Philip Bujak will stand crown court trial in 2017 for his alleged role in a high-value plot to defraud the Montessori St Nicholas charity over the sale of one of its London buildings.

Sector response: early years national funding formula

News

Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years organsiations that have long campaigned for early years funding reform have broadly welcomed the plans.

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

News

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

| Nursery World

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

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

News

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

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The expansion of Government-funded places for two-year-olds and better economic conditions has driven demand for children’s nurseries, according to a new report.

More councils bow to pressure on ‘free’ 30-hour childcare

News

Monday, September 3, 2018

| Nursery World

Councils around the country are ditching the word ‘free’ to describe the 30 hours childcare offer in favour of ‘funded’ following sustained lobbying from early years providers.

Counting the cost of early years funding shortfalls

Opinion

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

| Nursery World

As recent reports reveal ongoing problems with the underfunding of the 30 hours, Neil Leitch, chief executive of the biggest voluntary sector provider the Pre-school Learning Alliance, calls for Government action, as he explains why it has closed more than 20 settings

Nadhim Zahawi promises 'deep dive' into nursery costs

News

Thursday, October 11, 2018

| Nursery World

The children’s minister has sought to reassure MPs that the Department for Education is looking into the costs of the 30-hour offer, while denying nursery closures are 'widespread'.