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Friday, January 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Do you want to keep up to speed on the Government’s 30-hour childcare policy and what it means for your setting?

Grandparents' charity wins kinship carer funding

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Friday, January 13, 2017

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National charity Grandparents Plus has been given £250,000 to support more family and friend carers looking after children.

IFS unconvinced on impact of 30-hour free childcare

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Monday, December 12, 2016

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The Government’s plans to extend the free childcare offer for all three- and four-year-olds in England from 15 to 30 hours a week for children in working families from September 2017 are ‘only likely to increase parental employment slightly’, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

Make free childcare universal, says UK business organisation

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

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The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which represents 92,000 businesses, wants a universal childcare entitlement up until school entry to help firms retain staff and working parents to progress.

Wales builds upon its childcare offer

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Friday, November 11, 2016

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The Welsh Government has announced further developments to its 30-hours free childcare pledge, as well as a funded package of courses to upskill its early years workforce.

'Learning together' trial open to 150 settings

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Friday, October 21, 2016

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Settings are invited to taking part in a £680k trial looking at the effects on children of boosting their parents' teaching skills and confidence.

Scotland consults on childcare funding reforms

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

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Sector leaders have welcomed Scottish childcare reforms, with plans to double free provision by 2020 and make funding ‘follow the child’.

Education secretary announces social mobility 'opportunity areas'

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

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Disadvantaged children in six areas across England will receive extra Government support, through a new £60m fund.

Government should admit 30 'free hours fail', sector claims

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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The 30 free-hours childcare expansion is an unrealisable Tory pledge - the Government should ‘come clean’ and admit it cannot afford to fund it in its current guise, sector leaders have claimed.

Trial of new digital childcare service to start later this year

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Monday, September 19, 2016

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Parents taking part in the trial of a new digital joint childcare service later this year, will be able to access Tax-Free Childcare early, ahead of the 2017 rollout.

Tax-Free Childcare invites are sent to providers

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Monday, September 19, 2016

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Nurseries, pre-schools, childminders and out-of-school clubs are being sent letters from HMRC inviting them to sign up for Tax-Free Childcare.

Scrap free 30-hour childcare to 'solve poverty' for poor families

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

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Free childcare for all working parents should not rise to 30 hours a week, but instead extra childcare should be provided free to low-income parents, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has said.

Summer holiday services failing children with learning disabilities

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

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Local government cuts have stranded children with learning disabilities without effective access to services during the school holidays, according to a survey by charity Mencap.