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Nurseries and early years organisations have been telling Nursery World that resolving issues with the Early Years Single Funding Formula and suspending the Code of Practice are more urgent for Government business than reviewing the EYFS.

Editor's View - finding clues to DfE intentions

Features

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

We can pick up some hints about how the Department for Education is thinking.

Children to lose free places as council stops funding nurseries

News

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Three nurseries in Scotland have been told they will no longer receive funding for the early years entitlement, meaning that parents will have to move their children elsewhere or miss out on a free place.

Early years capital grant for nurseries could be withdrawn

News

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary settings that have applied for funding for improvements from the early years capital grant could lose out on millions of pounds.

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.

Government abandons GCSE rules for Early Years Teachers

News

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

| Nursery World

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.

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

News

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted has published its new Childminder agency handbook, along with the application forms that people will need if they wish to apply to become an agency.

Council stops children with relatives in nursery claiming free hours

News

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

| Nursery World

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.

Think-tank proposes scheme to make childcare more affordable

News

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Parents would be able to borrow up to 10,000 to pay for the cost of childcare which they would then pay back on a monthly basis through the tax system, under plans proposed by the think-tank the Social Market Foundation.

Childcare costs survey: nursery fees rise by 6 per cent in a year

News

Friday, February 24, 2012

| Nursery World

The growing gap between the cost of a nursery place and parents' earnings is revealed in the annual childcare costs survey.

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

News

Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours childcare policy could widen the gap between poorer children and their better-off peers, and should be axed unless it is properly funded, a leading education charity says today.

Sure Start: Norfolk County Council - Community trust plans to boost centre services

Features

Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Sure Start has achieved a lot in the deprived area of Great Yarmouth - and despite drastic funding cuts, it is hoped that this good work will continue. Mary Evans reports.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

News

Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

UK falls from 11th to 156th place in global children’s rights rankings

News

Monday, May 15, 2017

| Nursery World

The UK is now ranked among the bottom ten countries across the world for its performance on children’s rights.

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

News

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nursery providers have warned that a two-tier system will be created, with children from disadvantaged families losing out on nursery places, following the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather in last week's Nursery World that the Government will not change the rules on the free entitlement and remove the ban on top-up fees.

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

News

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Just how local authorities split early years funding between private and voluntary nurseries and maintained provision in schools and nursery schools has long been a bone of contention.

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

News

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

| Nursery World

Labour has released more details of how it would offer 30-hour childcare to all two- to four-year-olds - 1.3m children - and reverse children’s centre cuts.

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Nursery owner re-launches business rates petition

Funding, not EYFS, is the main problem, say nurseries

Editor's View - finding clues to DfE intentions

Children to lose free places as council stops funding nurseries

Early years capital grant for nurseries could be withdrawn

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

Government abandons GCSE rules for Early Years Teachers

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

Council stops children with relatives in nursery claiming free hours

Think-tank proposes scheme to make childcare more affordable

Childcare costs survey: nursery fees rise by 6 per cent in a year

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

Sure Start: Norfolk County Council - Community trust plans to boost centre services

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

UK falls from 11th to 156th place in global children’s rights rankings

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

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