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New: latest edition of Nursery Management

Monday, March 21, 2016

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Don't miss Nursery Management, with our exclusive survey on how costs will affect the sector, ratios across the world, keeping staff fit and more.

Nursery Management: Marketing - All part of the plan

Monday, March 21, 2016

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Marketing may not be top of the priorities list, but with more financial pressures on the way in the form of the 30 hours and National Living Wage, it may come into its own, writes Gordon Kay

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.

HR Update - The National Living Wage

Sunday, March 6, 2016

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The confusingly titled National Living Wage comes in this April. Jacqui Mann of HR4Nurseries explains

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

Asquith buys Montessori group

Friday, March 4, 2016

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The UK's third largest nursery chain Asquith Nurseries has expanded further with the acquisition of a North London Montessori group.

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.

Tell us your thoughts!

Friday, February 26, 2016

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Our Business Costs survey seeking to find out how settings are coping with cost challenges: from the National Living Wage this April through to the funded entitlement for 3/4 year olds (and the planned increase from 15 to 30 hours next year).

Asquith buys south-east based group

Monday, February 22, 2016

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Asquith Nurseries has acquired Barley Barn Childcare, the first deal in an expansion plan for 2016.

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

Sustainability: Part 2 - Taking the lead

Monday, February 22, 2016

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In the second part of our sustainability series, Diane Boyd and Nicky Hirst of Liverpool John Moores University, and Sarah Emerson of Kids Love Nature, describe how leaders can start the process off

Pre-school fights Ofsted downgrade on mobile phone use

Monday, February 22, 2016

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Managers of a pre-school stripped of its Outstanding status after reported failings with mobile phone safeguarding claim that they had a formal policy with which parents were happy.

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.

Nursery group to offer parents flexibility to book childcare in 15-minute slots

Friday, February 5, 2016

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At its newest setting Tops Day Nurseries will let parents book only the childcare they need to within a quarter of an hour,to save them money.

Change in charity's structure drives nursery expansion

Friday, February 5, 2016

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One of the largest voluntary childcare providers in Cornwall is celebrating gaining new CIO status in its 25th birthday year.

Just Childcare buys First Class Child Care

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

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Rapidly expanding nursery group Just Childcare has increased its places by a third with the acquisition of First Class Child Care's nine settings in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

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.

Sustainability: Part 1 - How to become sustainable

Monday, January 25, 2016

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In the first of a series on sustainable ideas for your setting, Sarah Emerson, head of education at Kids Love Nature, gives an overview of how managers can go green and save money in the process

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.

Small nurseries could go to the wall over 30 hours

Friday, January 22, 2016

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Small nurseries are not likely to survive the introduction of the 30 hours of funded childcare, leading sector figures have warned.

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