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Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

Nursery group creates app for parents

News

Friday, May 5, 2017

| Nursery World

A Scottish nursery group has launched an app for parents after securing a six-figure sum from Clydesdale Bank.

Protect early years funding to keep quality and access for disadvantaged children

News

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

| Nursery World

Social mobility must be at the heart of the general election campaign, the Sutton Trust says today, starting with the early years.

Tax-Free Childcare goes live

News

Monday, April 24, 2017

| Nursery World

From today, working parents of children under four can start using Tax-Free Childcare, as well as sign up ahead of the 30-hour September roll-out.

Funding for projects to improve children's life chances

News

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

| Nursery World

A consortium of education and children’s charities has received a share of DfE funding to improve the life chances of disadvantaged children.

Survey reveals 30 hours pressure on London childcare

News

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s 30-hour policy threatens the availability and quality of childcare for working parents in the capital, a new report claims.

Council invests £400,000 in children’s centre refurbishment

News

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

| Nursery World

Tower Hamlets Council has invested more than £430,000 updating its Ocean Children’s Centre in Stepney, which has been offically re-opened.

HMRC details how Tax-Free Childcare scheme will work

News

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

More details of how the Tax-Free Childcare scheme will work in practice have been revealed to Nursery World by HMRC.

Low-earners’ bad deal

Opinion

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Natalie Perera looks at the detail behind the Government's much-quoted £6 billion childcare spending figure

Parents missing out on free places because councils failing to follow guidance

News

Monday, March 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Most councils in Scotland are not adhering to Government guidance on cross-boundary funding of free childcare places, leaving parents unable to take up their 600-hour entitlement.

Sesame Street puppets give refugee children emotional support

News

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

| Nursery World

An early learning project that uses the children's television characters to help refugee children displaced by conflict to overcome trauma has been shortlisted for a $100m (£80m) grant from a Chicago-based charitable foundation.

Cost of childcare remains too high for parents, charity warns

News

Thursday, March 2, 2017

| Nursery World

A part-time nursery place is costing British parents more than £6,000 a year, twice as much as what the average household spends on food and drink, according to the Family and Childcare Trust.

Government lobbied to keep vouchers to save on childcare costs

News

Monday, February 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Parents should continue to have the option of using childcare vouchers, say campaigners, who are calling on the Government to scrap plans to stop new users from being able to register for them.

The Wright Stuff: 'It’s not all about the ratios'

Opinion

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

| Nursery World

Relaxing ratios isn't the answer to cheaper childcare, says Liz Bayram.

Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow

News

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

| Nursery World

Police and transport workers will be eligible for a loan up to £1,500 to pay for upfront childcare costs, which Sadiq Khan says are stopping mothers returning to work.

Big issues: Follow the story

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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

News

Friday, January 13, 2017

| Nursery World

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

News

Monday, December 12, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Thursday, November 17, 2016

| Nursery World

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

News

Friday, November 11, 2016

| Nursery World

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.

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