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

Monday, October 5, 2015

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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.

Nursery Management: Equality - Finding balance

Monday, September 21, 2015

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A Christian nursery worker sacked for comments about homosexuality recently won a case against her employer. So are equality and discrimination mutually exclusive? Katy Morton finds out.

Nursery Management: Recruitment - Staff wanted

Monday, September 21, 2015

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A drop in the numbers applying for jobs, and in the quality of candidates, is leaving the sector floundering. Hannah Crown investigates.

Nursery Management exclusive: Childminding - Counting the cost

Monday, September 21, 2015

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The impact of underfunding of the free entitlement for childminders has been revealed - with two thirds making a loss. Charlotte Goddard reports.

Nursery Management: Poverty - Destined for failure?

Monday, September 21, 2015

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Early years practitioners know that part of their job is reducing the disadvantage gap. But what do they really think of poor children? Dr Donald Simpson, who has led a two-year study into practitioners'perceptions of poverty, reports.

Funding - the hard facts

Monday, August 24, 2015

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Pre-school Learning Alliance Chief Executive Neil Leitch says the Government must look at the evidence when revising free hours funding

Government abandons GCSE rules for Early Years Teachers

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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Early Years Teachers will no longer need GCSE English and Maths at grade C and above to count in Level 3 workforce ratios, following yet another Government revision to qualification requirements.

GCSE rules scrapped for standalone Level 3 EYEs

Friday, July 31, 2015

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The requirement for those taking standalone Level 3 Early Years Educator courses to have GCSE English and Maths at Grade C or above before starting the qualification has been removed just before the new funding year begins on 1 August.

Danger of childcare workforce shortage without wage increase

Friday, July 24, 2015

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Low pay in the childcare sector could lead to a shortage in staff, warns a new report.

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

Thursday, July 16, 2015

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

Tax-Free Childcare delayed until 2017

Thursday, July 2, 2015

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Tax-free childcare (TFC) has been delayed until early 2017, following a legal challenge from the childcare voucher provider companies.

Government U turns over apprentice GCSEs

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

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Apprentices have been handed a lifeline after the Government climbed down over GCSE rules yesterday.

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

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Ofsted has confirmed that early years inspections will continue to be outsourced to third-party inspection providers.

Alliance calls for comprehensive analysis of free places costs

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

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The Pre-school Learning Alliance is calling for an in-depth review of funded childcare, amid concerns that the Government has ‘severely under-costed’ its 30-hour plan.

Government brings forward 30-hour childcare and funding review

Monday, June 1, 2015

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David Cameron will today unveil plans for a funding review to start ‘before the summer’ in advance of a pilot of 30 hours of free childcare from September 2016.

Alliance calls for seat at funding review table

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

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The Pre-School Learning Alliance has released a post-election manifesto in which it asks to work with government on the promised review of free entitlement funding.

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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Data experts have costed the three main parties' pledges on extended free childcare.

Disqualification rules 'ineffective', say providers

Monday, April 20, 2015

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Rules banning early years staff from working with children because of who they live with are 'unfair' and 'ineffective', nurseries claim.

Nursery chain offers 'babble to chatter' scheme

Thursday, April 16, 2015

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The UK’s largest nursery group Busy Bees has launched a new training programme to help practitioners to develop children’s early language skills.

Conservatives pledge to double free childcare hours

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

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A Conservative Government would increase free early education for three- and four-year-olds to 30 hours a week and boost hourly rates paid to providers.

Council scraps plans for free hours funding withdrawal

Thursday, April 2, 2015

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Lancashire County Council confirmed today (2 April) that it will not be going ahead with plans that would have seen children with relatives working in the same setting losing their early education funding.

Council backs down over funded places plans for nursery staff

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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Lancashire County Council has made a dramatic climbdown over its decision to ban nursery workers with related children in their nursery from claiming free hours funding.

Council stops children with relatives in nursery claiming free hours

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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Education officials have slammed a council’s plans to stop children related to nursery staff from claiming free early education funding in the setting where they work.

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.

End in sight for no-notice nursery inspections

Friday, March 27, 2015

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In future early years settings will receive a half-day's notice ahead of their routine inspection, Nursery World can exclusively reveal.

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