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Study highlights barriers for childminders offering funded places

Thursday, December 18, 2014

| Nursery World

More childminders would consider providing funded places for three- and four-year-olds if funding were increased, new research suggests.

Osborne goes ahead with doubling of Childcare Business Grant funds

News

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has confirmed that it will fund a £2m extension of the Childcare Business Grant scheme.

Nurseries must 'innovate' to make funding work, childcare minister says

News

Friday, November 28, 2014

| Nursery World

Nurseries should make more use of ‘economies of scale’ to offer parents more affordable childcare, Sam Gyimah has said.

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

News

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has launched a new parent campaign to highlight the cash value of early education places.

Sam Gyimah to face questions about under-funding from House of Lords committee

News

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The Select Committee on Affordable Childcare is to question the childcare minister on the underfunding of the free entitlement.

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

News

Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.

Nursery group subsidising free places in Scottish settings

News

Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

Bertram has revealed it is subsidising places for three and four-year-old at its Glasgow settings because of a cap on its funded places.

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

News

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

| Nursery World

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.

Osborne looks to extend Childcare Business Grant

News

Friday, October 24, 2014

| Nursery World

Chancellor George Osborne is considering boosting the Childcare Business Grant scheme by £2m as part of a drive to increase female employment.

Early years entrepreneurs urged to apply for start-up grant

News

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

| Nursery World

Budding nursery owners and childminders are encouraged to apply for a share of £1m in Government funding to help with their start-up costs.

£2.3m early years bursary scheme attracts handful of applicants

News

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Labour has branded the Early Years Apprenticeship Scheme a failure, after just 23 apprentices were successful in applying for the funding.

Crowdfunding for Childcare - Working the crowd

Features

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

With bank lending falling since the financial crisis and cuts to local authority budgets taking hold, early years providers are beginning to turn to crowdfunding as a way of raising cash. Katy Morton reports.

The dangers of ditching vouchers

Opinion

Thursday, March 20, 2014

| Nursery World

The way in which the Government has chosen to deliver the Tax-Free Childcare scheme could have implications for providers and parents, warns Fiona Shields.

Voluntary Sector - We must survive

Features

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

| Nursery World

Voluntary-run playgroups and pre-schools are the finest example of the 'Big Society' and should be supported to become sustainable, argues volunteer Sue Cowley.

Council cut brings end to charity-run children's centres

News

Friday, August 9, 2013

| Nursery World

Barnardo's and Action for Children have lost their contracts to run seven children's centres in Leicester in a council bid to save 1.7m a year.

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

News

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to make childcare more affordable and increase the provision of out-of-school childcare in schools have been set out today.

Complaints spark Teach First review

News

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

The eligibility criteria for Teach First are currently being reviewed following complaints that applicants with early years degrees were unable to apply for the scheme.

No funding for thousands wanting to do Level 5

News

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

Thousands of early years and childcare workers are currently unable to undertake a Level 5 qualification in childcare because there is no Government funding available to them.

Two-year-olds Q&A: Determined to extend reach

News

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

With the Government planning to ramp up the two-year-olds programme for 2014, Karen Faux breaks down the facts and figures to ask what it means for the sector.

Two-year-olds: Survey of nurseries raises questions about viability of twos programme

News

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

More than a third of nurseries in England that are not currently involved in offering funded places for two-year-olds say that they are unlikely or unsure about getting involved in the future.

Childcare providers raise concerns over future funding of two-year-old scheme

News

Friday, June 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Some providers fear that the existing levels of funding they receive through local authorities for the two-year-old entitlement will reduce when the programme expands beyond 2014.

Government funds early years apprenticeships for 1,000 students

News

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

| Nursery World

A total of 2m will be available through a new scheme in the run-up to the Early Years Educator qualification.

'Just relax the ratios, turn on the tap and the children will come'

Opinion

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Perhaps Liz Truss could persuade the Treasury to adopt a novel form of quantitative easing, argues Ross Midgley - just print more children.

Consultation opens on changes to way LAs fund providers

News

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.

Nursery group cuts fees

News

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

| Nursery World

The Old Station Nursery's Henley-on-Thames setting will reduce the cost of childcare from April, which could mean a saving for parents with a child on a part-time place of up to 2,730 a year.

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Study highlights barriers for childminders offering funded places

Osborne goes ahead with doubling of Childcare Business Grant funds

Nurseries must 'innovate' to make funding work, childcare minister says

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

Sam Gyimah to face questions about under-funding from House of Lords committee

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

Nursery group subsidising free places in Scottish settings

Rising demand drives nursery sector to £4.9 bn

Osborne looks to extend Childcare Business Grant

Early years entrepreneurs urged to apply for start-up grant

£2.3m early years bursary scheme attracts handful of applicants

Crowdfunding for Childcare - Working the crowd

The dangers of ditching vouchers

Voluntary Sector - We must survive

Council cut brings end to charity-run children's centres

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

Complaints spark Teach First review

No funding for thousands wanting to do Level 5

Two-year-olds Q&A: Determined to extend reach

Two-year-olds: Survey of nurseries raises questions about viability of twos programme

Childcare providers raise concerns over future funding of two-year-old scheme

Government funds early years apprenticeships for 1,000 students

'Just relax the ratios, turn on the tap and the children will come'

Consultation opens on changes to way LAs fund providers

Nursery group cuts fees

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