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New Code of Practice to safeguard Montessori ethos

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Montessori settings will be expected to sign up to a new Code of Practice to endorse their professionalism and the quality of their early years provision.

Majority of early years sector oppose reforms

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

A survey by the National Children's Bureau reveals the extent to which the early years sector is opposed to the reforms in More Great Childcare, with the majority claiming they will have a detrimental effect on children, particularly disadvantaged two-year-olds.

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

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Friday, September 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Research into the pilot of childminder agencies has been published by the Department for Education.

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Government launches child protection review

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove and children and families minister Tim Loughton last week invited Professor Eileen Munro from the London School of Economics to conduct an independent review of child protection and social work in England that will focus on how social workers can spend more time with vulnerable children.

Nursery owner calls on PM to honour pledge on top-up fees

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

A nursery owner who received a letter from David Cameron's office before the General Election, stating that the Conservatives believed the 2006 Code of Practice on free nursery education places should be suspended and nurseries allowed to charge 'supplementary fees', is urging the Prime Minister to stand by his party's pre-election policy.

Providers call for more flexible code of practice for free entitlement

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries and local authorities must be able to operate 'flexibly' within the revised Code of Practice, a policy group of nursery providers said this week.

Nursery market is on the up, new survey shows

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

| Nursery World

Laing & Buisson's latest survey of the UK nursery market reveals that business has improved in the last six months, with occupancy levels rising.

Nursery Management: Closing the Gap - Bridge building

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Why are some councils tackling the attainment gap in the early years between disadvantaged children and their better-off peers while others are not? Charlotte Goddard reports

Voluntary nursery loses capital funds

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

A community nursery in the London Borough of Hackney that was due to receive 330,000 from the Early Years Capital Grant has become one of the latest victims of Government cuts.

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have delayed access to funded early years education, new research from the LSE suggests.

Scottish government promises 600 hours of free nursery care

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Monday, March 12, 2012

| Nursery World

Parents in Scotland could be entitled to over 600 hours of free nursery education a year, under new plans announced by first minister Alex Salmond.

Conference report: Two-year-old programme is on track

News

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Strong progress is being made towards the Government's target of 130,000 free places for disadvantaged two-year-olds by this September.

Ofsted to carry out joint inspections of children's centres

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

| Nursery World

Sure Start children's centres managed as clusters, or as 'hub and spoke' models, will receive a single inspection and report from next year.

'More Great Childcare': Interview with Elizabeth Truss

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Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Nursery World was invited to Durand Academy in south London to meet education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss in advance of the publication of the 'More great childcare' report.

Alliance blames lack of Government funding for closing fifth of settings

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has closed 23 nurseries since January, as a direct result of the longstanding Government under-funding of 15- and 30-hour childcare entitlements, Nursery World can reveal.

TUC calls for emergency bailout of childcare sector

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Friday, June 5, 2020

| Nursery World

The TUC is calling for an urgent ‘cash injection’ for the childcare sector, warning that without it there will not be enough places for working parents to return to their jobs, as the lockdown eases.

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

| Nursery World

With the autumn term under way, thousands of early years providers are already feeling the knock-on effect of the pandemic, as much lower numbers of children have returned or taken up new places.

Coronavirus: All PVI nurseries to be sent home-testing kits

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Monday, February 22, 2021

| Nursery World

All staff at private, voluntary and independent nurseries and pre-schools will have access to rapid Covid tests to use twice weekly at home, the Department for Education has confirmed.