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DfE updates guidance on wider opening for early years and childcare providers

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

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The Department for Education has updated guidance for early years and childcare providers, including confirmation that from 1 June, childminders can look after children of all ages, in line with their current Ofsted registration, and within usual limits on the number of children they can care for.

Lottery grants awarded to baby and toddler projects

Friday, August 23, 2013

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The Pre-school Alliance is one of a number of charities to share 5m from the Big Lottery Fund's A Better Start programme to improve outcomes for children from birth to three-years-old.

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

Friday, June 28, 2013

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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.

Providers fund one out of every five free places

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

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PVI providers are being left with more than a £400 shortfall in funding per child per year under the free entitlement, show new figures.

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

Friday, March 27, 2015

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More details of how early years providers can apply for grants of up to £50,000 in social investment funding have been released.

Parents save Tower Hamlets nurseries from closure

Friday, December 5, 2014

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Campaigning parents have won a victory against Tower Hamlets Council to keep four nurseries providing specialist services for children with disabilities and learning difficulties open.

School nurseries warn 30-hours will force them to take fewer children

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

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Most primary schools are already subsidising free nursery places from the rest of their budget and fear that doubling the entitlement will force them to cut pupil numbers, a new survey of head teachers suggests.

Exclusive interview with Childcare Minister Sam Gyimah: France, funding and the 30 hours

Monday, October 19, 2015

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With the Childcare Bill for the 30 hours in the Commons and rising costs causing concern in early years, Ruth Thomson speaks to Sam Gyimah about what the sector can expect looking ahead.

Welsh childcare sector 'most fragile in Britain'

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

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Nurseries in Wales are struggling to stay afloat due to low funding rates and rising business costs, according to findings from the NDNA’s annual survey.

Early Years Pupil Premium: Can nurseries make the EYPP work?

Monday, February 9, 2015

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The early years pupil premium comes into effect this April. But while the extra funding is welcome, the initiative looks likely to present some challenges for settings, as Charlotte Goddard explains.

PACEY awarded £400k to support childminders to deliver 30 hours

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

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A new project to support childminders considering offering the 30 hours free entitlement is to launch with DfE funding.

Sector issues ‘stark warning’ over 30 hours

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

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Around half of early years provision is under threat of closure over the Government’s plans to extend the free childcare offer to 30 hours, a survey from the Pre-school Learning Alliance suggests.

Interview - Jonathan Broadbery

Monday, August 20, 2018

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The new head of policy and external relations at the National Day Nurseries Association talks about his role

NDNA seals deal for Scottish providers ahead of childcare expansion

Monday, September 24, 2018

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The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has partnered with Scotland’s association of councils to draw up principles of working together that local authorities and providers must adhere to.

Call for national early intervention strategy

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

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MPs are calling for a new national early intervention strategy to tackle childhood adversity and trauma, and are calling on the Government to hold the long-delayed consultation on children's centres.

MPs blame Government's 30-hour childcare policy for 'entrenching inequality'

Thursday, February 7, 2019

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The Government should review 30 hour childcare to address the ‘perverse consequences’ that are leading to a growing gap between disadvantaged children and their peers, MPs have said.

More than half of Warwickshire’s children’s centres to close

Monday, November 13, 2017

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As part of a redesign of services for children and families, Warwickshire County Council is closing 25 of its 39 children’s centres in a bid to save £1.1 million.

Continuing struggle for parents to find a 30 hours place

Friday, April 13, 2018

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The latest DfE figures on 30-hour codes for the summer term show 50,000 parents who have been issued a code have not had it validated, suggesting an increasing struggle to find a childcare place.

East Sussex children's centres could close

Friday, May 24, 2019

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Fourteen children’s centres in East Sussex have been earmarked for closure in an attempt to cut council budgets.

A third of Scottish nursery children already using extra funded hours

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

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Thousands of children in Scotland are already using additional childcare hours, just under a year away from full roll out, according to the Scottish Government.

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