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Ceeda debate: 'Until the sector collapses you won't get investment'

Monday, January 27, 2020

| Nursery World

A legal challenge, a PR campaign and a working group were mooted as solutions to raise the profile of unsustainable childcare funding with the public, in crunch talks last week.

Updated furlough guidance gives flexibility for nurseries to rotate staff

News

Thursday, April 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Nursery workers that have been put on temporary leave by their employer during the coronavirus crisis can be furloughed more than once, according to updated guidance.

Childcare providers among hundreds of firms not eligible for Government help

News

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

| Nursery World

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has been inundated with emails from the self-employed and small companies, including childcare providers, that are missing out on Government support during the coronavirus crisis.

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

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Friday, August 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report looking at ways to reform childcare recommends staff: child ratios be relaxed further than the proposed 1:5 in 'good' and 'outstanding' nurseries and suggests childminder agencies take on a larger role within the sector.

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

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Monday, February 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Higher-quality early years education does not involve ‘substantially higher cost’, according to new research commissioned by the DfE, which also found that maintained provision has higher delivery costs than the PVI sector.

30 hours action - can we agree?

Opinion

Monday, November 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Neil Leitch calls on the early years sector to find common ground and work together in lobbying for change to the 30 hours policy

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.

Providers facing real-term funding cut while costs rise

News

Monday, March 23, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years providers are facing a real-term cut in funding to deliver three and four-year-old places in 2015/16, amid increases to business and running costs.

Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

News

Thursday, July 16, 2015

| Nursery World

New guidance to help early years settings calculate the real cost of providing funded childcare places is now available.

Local authority tells settings not to charge for funded twos

News

Monday, April 15, 2019

| Nursery World

As providers increasingly move to charging parents of disadvantaged two-year-olds for ‘extras’, one local authority body has recommended settings refrain from doing so.

30 hours policy 'entrenches inequality' says social mobility watchdog

News

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government should extend its 30 hours offer to those working eight hours per week and eventually to all unemployed parents, the Social Mobility Commission said today.

Poor areas hit hardest by rising nursery closures

News

Thursday, September 12, 2019

| Nursery World

More nurseries are closing in the most deprived areas of the country than elsewhere, according to analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association.

Nurseries challenge childcare minister on 30-hours policy

News

Friday, October 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery owners have criticised children and families minister Robert Goodwill, claiming that comments he made to providers after a meeting in Westminster show a ‘lack of knowledge and understanding’ of 30-hours funding.

Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds

News

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The cost to private and voluntary nurseries of last month’s budget is £437m according to an analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association.

DfE publishes 30 hours guide for early years providers and councils

News

Monday, April 24, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has published operational guidance for 30-hour childcare.

Provider goodwill is running out

Opinion

Thursday, November 19, 2015

| Nursery World

Linda Symons, owner of Kidz Kabin, London, says the 30-hour policy is untenable, and parents should know the truth about the cost

'Low-pay childcare sector can't afford National Living Wage'

News

Friday, April 1, 2016

| Nursery World

The national living wage has come into force today - as childcare providers say they cannot afford to pay it without raising fees.

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.

Increase staff flexibility to make ends meet, says DfE

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Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Following the Government’s review of childcare costs, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of Ceeda, asks if more use of ‘variable staffing models’ is feasible

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

News

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The DfE has extended the bursary scheme for graduate entry to Early Years Teacher Status courses to those with 2.2 degrees for 2016/17.

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

News

Thursday, March 17, 2016

| Nursery World

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.

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

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.

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

News

Thursday, January 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Sixty teaching schools will share £5m of Government funding in partnerships with local nurseries.

Making Ends Meet Part 1: Balancing the books in the wake of the expanded offer

Features

Saturday, June 1, 2024

| Nursery World

In a new series, Leah Jones asks how settings are balancing the books as the first phase of the expanded offer, for twos, comes in

Providers' failure to provide detailed costs leaves DfE in the dark

News

Monday, October 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Most of the providers who responded to the Government’s call for evidence on funded places did not give figures, leaving the Department for Education unable to understand the costs of providing free hours.

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Ceeda debate: 'Until the sector collapses you won't get investment'

Updated furlough guidance gives flexibility for nurseries to rotate staff

Childcare providers among hundreds of firms not eligible for Government help

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

30 hours action - can we agree?

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

Providers facing real-term funding cut while costs rise

Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

Local authority tells settings not to charge for funded twos

30 hours policy 'entrenches inequality' says social mobility watchdog

Poor areas hit hardest by rising nursery closures

Nurseries challenge childcare minister on 30-hours policy

Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds

DfE publishes 30 hours guide for early years providers and councils

Provider goodwill is running out

'Low-pay childcare sector can't afford National Living Wage'

Government lobbied to keep vouchers to save on childcare costs

Increase staff flexibility to make ends meet, says DfE

More graduates eligible for Early Years Teacher training bursaries

Budget: Small nurseries taken out of business rates

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

Making Ends Meet Part 1: Balancing the books in the wake of the expanded offer

Providers' failure to provide detailed costs leaves DfE in the dark

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