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DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

Friday, January 22, 2016

| Nursery World

4Children is supporting nurseries, schools and local authorities to open childminder agencies in a new push by the Department for Education to expand the scheme across England.

Pupil Premium 'should go to rural areas too'

News

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

The Government's Pupil Premium for disadvantaged children should be used to help children in rural communities, a children's service campaigning group argues.

Future of state-run nursery schools ‘in doubt’ after Budget

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

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More than 400 state-run nursery schools could ‘disappear at a stroke’ under the Government’s plan to turn all schools into academies, a leading early years specialist has warned.

Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

News

Thursday, November 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The annual cost of providing childcare has risen by 20 per cent since last year, new Department for Education figures reveal.

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

News

Thursday, October 4, 2012

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Two HMRC nurseries in Wales and Scotland threatened with closure could stay open for another three years.

Funding scheme launched for parents campaigning against cuts to children's centres

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Friday, January 27, 2012

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Daycare Trust and Unison have joined forces to provide grants to support parents and staff campaigning to save their local Sure Start children's centres from closure.

Three London councils merge to cut costs

News

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea councils are to merge services from February 2011, generating savings of between 50m and 100m a year.

School dinners 'not value for money'

News

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Three in ten teachers believe the price of meals in their school do not represent value for money, according to a new survey.

Childbase employee-ownership report gets ministerial backing

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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Nursery group Childbase Partnership has received support from government ministers for its call for more employee ownership in UK businesses.

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

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Friday, November 30, 2012

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The National Day Nurseries Association has won ten contracts to support 62 local authorities in England with the rollout of free early education places for disadvantaged two-year-olds

One in five teachers has given food to hungry pupils, a survey suggests

News

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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Large numbers of pupils in London are starting the day without breakfast, a survey claims.

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

News

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

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Children are missing out on vital speech and language therapy and starting school without the language skills they need, according to new research by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Falling occupancy levels and chronic underfunding threatens high-quality nursery provision

News

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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Under-funding of free early education places and the tough economic climate are threatening sustainability of the nursery sector and the viability of the two-year-olds programme, the National Day Nurseries Association has warned.

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

News

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

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Representatives of the campaign to save Salford’s five local authority nurseries have been invited to meet children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi today (Wednesday 16 May).?

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

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Local authorities are set to lose their early years quality improvement role, as Ofsted becomes 'the sole arbiter of quality in the early years', in the Government's 'More Great Childcare' shake-up.

To the point: You must be kidding

Opinion

Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Trying to have a childcare system like the French does not come for free, says Vidhya Alakeson

College nursery rescued from closure

News

Friday, August 26, 2011

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A students' union is to take over the running of a campus nursery after leading a year-long campaign to save it.

Government considers parenting classes for all

News

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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The Government has announced plans to trial the use of vouchers for parenting classes to mothers and fathers with children under the age of five.

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

News

Friday, June 1, 2018

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One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

News

Friday, June 22, 2018

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Labour would abolish tax-free childcare if it come to power, the shadow childcare minister said today.

Revised safeguarding guidelines focus on the child

News

Friday, March 22, 2013

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More focus needs to be placed on the needs of children revised Government guidelines on safeguarding state.

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

News

Thursday, March 28, 2013

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Demand for childcare in the Netherlands has fallen sharply amid the economic crisis and cuts in childcare tax credits, leading to a huge rise in the number of centres going bankrupt.

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Opinion

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.

Boris Johnson lends support to parenting course in primary schools

News

Friday, September 23, 2011

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London mayor Boris Johnson has given his backing to the expansion of a scheme which offers free parenting classes to the parents of primary school children.

Leaked Clegg letter intensifies ratios row

News

Friday, May 10, 2013

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The row over childcare ratios escalated last night after leaked letters between education and childcare minister Liz Truss and Nick Clegg came to light.

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DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

Pupil Premium 'should go to rural areas too'

Future of state-run nursery schools ‘in doubt’ after Budget

Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

Funding scheme launched for parents campaigning against cuts to children's centres

Three London councils merge to cut costs

School dinners 'not value for money'

Childbase employee-ownership report gets ministerial backing

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

One in five teachers has given food to hungry pupils, a survey suggests

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

Falling occupancy levels and chronic underfunding threatens high-quality nursery provision

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

To the point: You must be kidding

College nursery rescued from closure

Government considers parenting classes for all

Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

Revised safeguarding guidelines focus on the child

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Boris Johnson lends support to parenting course in primary schools

Leaked Clegg letter intensifies ratios row

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