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Spring Budget 2017: Tax-Free Childcare to start from April

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

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Tax-Free Childcare will start next month and be rolled out to all eligible parents by the end of the year, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his first Budget today.

Mixed response to DfE's new model agreement

News

Monday, March 6, 2017

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Early years settings will not be able to force parents to pay for extras as a condition of taking up a free childcare place, the Department for Education has reiterated in a model agreement.

Early years research programme to plug 'analysis gap'

News

Monday, March 6, 2017

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Thousands of nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are being invited to take part in a new independent research programme, set up to address the perceived gap in robust analysis of the early years sector.

Exclusive: PACEY Workforce survey finds childminders more confident than nurseries about the future

News

Monday, March 6, 2017

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While many nurseries are losing confidence in their financial prospects, childminders appear to be feeling more optimistic.

Do graduates and ratings really make no difference?

Opinion

Monday, March 6, 2017

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Following a study claiming that graduate staff and Ofsted Outstandings have little impact on children’s outcomes, a group of early years academics take issue with its methods

GCSE Level 3 rules scrapped as Early Years Workforce Strategy is released

News

Friday, March 3, 2017

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Functional skills will be reinstated as alternatives to GCSEs in English and maths for Level 3 qualifications, the early years minister Caroline Dinenage confirmed today.

Revised EYFS updates Level 3 and first aid rules

News

Friday, March 3, 2017

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The DfE has published the revised Early Years Foundation Stage framework to incorporate the new Level 3 qualification requirements and first aid regulations.

DfE offers childminder start-up grants for 30 hours

News

Friday, February 24, 2017

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Newly registered childminders and childminder agencies can apply for grants of up to £1,000, if they are planning to offer the Government’s funded 30-hour childcare places.

Campaigners lodge complaint against Government on 30 hours 'price fixing'

News

Monday, February 20, 2017

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A campaign group of childcare providers have lodged a complaint with the competition watchdog about the Government’s underfunding of the free hours.

Children’s services update - Mental health

Features

Monday, February 20, 2017

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John Simmonds argues that mental health support should be extended to early years as a priority.

30 Hours, Part 4: Northumberland - Help out there

Features

Monday, February 20, 2017

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In the country’s least densely populated county, Northumberland, the council is using the 30 hours trial to find out how to cater for geographically isolated families. Charlotte Goddard reports

Government lobbied to keep vouchers to save on childcare costs

News

Monday, February 20, 2017

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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.

Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock

News

Friday, February 17, 2017

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The Government has dispensed with the Early Years Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group following a long-running stand-off over the inclusion of ‘reasonable equivalents’ to GCSE English and Maths in the new Level 3 apprenticeship standard.

It's not 'free', it's funded!

Opinion

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

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The Government needs to come clean to parents that 30 hours funding will force providers to charge for 'extra' services, says Neil Leitch, chief executive of Pre-school Learning Alliance

Charge for extras to make 30 hours viable, Minister tells nurseries

News

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

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Early years minister Caroline Dinenage has told private nursery owners that they must charge parents for additional services if their viability is threatened by 30 hours funding rates that are less than the fees they charge outside the free entitlement.

Alliance wins data victory on DfE childcare costs report

News

Friday, February 10, 2017

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Research carried out for a DfE review into the costs of childcare has finally been published a year after a Freedom of Information request from the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

News

Monday, February 6, 2017

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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.

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

News

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

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The new apprenticeship funding system could result in lower wages for employees, a think tank has claimed.

A final farewell to our pre-school

Opinion

Monday, January 23, 2017

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Following the recent closure of Kirkgate Pre-School in Cumbria, former staff member Emmie Short remembers what made the setting so special, and explains why it was forced to shut down

Underestimate of eligible parents could cause 30-hour 'capacity crisis'

News

Friday, January 20, 2017

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New research claims the Government has underestimated the take-up of the 30-hours by more than 100,000 places, saying that as many as 500,000 parents could be eligible, rather than the 390,000 cited by the Government.

Big issues: Follow the story

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Friday, January 13, 2017

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Do you want to keep up to speed on the Government’s 30-hour childcare policy and what it means for your setting?

Worst employer excuses for not paying the minimum wage revealed

News

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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Only making the tea, not being British, and it doesn’t apply to me, are all reasons that employers have given for not paying the statutory minimum wage, the Government has revealed.

Council rows back on top-slicing early years funding

News

Friday, January 6, 2017

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Nursery owners in Surrey are challenging the local authority on how much early years funding should be held back for council costs.

Settings close as financial pressure takes its toll

News

Monday, December 12, 2016

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Nurseries across the country are being hit by cuts to funding and increased costs, leading many to close ahead of the introduction of the 30 free hours.

Early years funding: DfE unveils new minimum rate

News

Thursday, December 1, 2016

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Councils will receive a new minimum rate of £4.30 an hour in the new early years funding formula, the early years minister has confirmed.

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Spring Budget 2017: Tax-Free Childcare to start from April

Mixed response to DfE's new model agreement

Early years research programme to plug 'analysis gap'

Exclusive: PACEY Workforce survey finds childminders more confident than nurseries about the future

Do graduates and ratings really make no difference?

GCSE Level 3 rules scrapped as Early Years Workforce Strategy is released

Revised EYFS updates Level 3 and first aid rules

DfE offers childminder start-up grants for 30 hours

Campaigners lodge complaint against Government on 30 hours 'price fixing'

Children’s services update - Mental health

30 Hours, Part 4: Northumberland - Help out there

Government lobbied to keep vouchers to save on childcare costs

Early years apprenticeship group dismissed in GCSE deadlock

It's not 'free', it's funded!

Charge for extras to make 30 hours viable, Minister tells nurseries

Alliance wins data victory on DfE childcare costs report

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

A final farewell to our pre-school

Underestimate of eligible parents could cause 30-hour 'capacity crisis'

Big issues: Follow the story

Worst employer excuses for not paying the minimum wage revealed

Council rows back on top-slicing early years funding

Settings close as financial pressure takes its toll

Early years funding: DfE unveils new minimum rate

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