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Cost-of-living crisis hits households with children the most – study

Thursday, July 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Children’s learning and development are being impacted by the cost-of-living crisis, according to NatCen research, which highlights that poverty rates are higher for households with children.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledges to invest in early language intervention

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled a new target for half a million children to reach the EYFS Early Learning Goals by 2030, if the Labour party wins the next general election.

Scotland's first minister announces funded childcare expansion

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

| Nursery World

Scotland is to pilot funded early years education for children from the age of nine months, following in the footsteps of England.

Ofsted highlights early years workforce crisis in annual report

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

| Nursery World

Ofsted’s annual report highlights the impact of the early years workforce crisis on the sector, and the growing number of unqualified staff in nurseries and pre-schools.

Nearly half of children under five live in 'childcare deserts'

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Monday, November 20, 2023

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More than 40 per cent of children live in local authorities that are ‘early education and care deserts’, where there are more than three children for every one registered place.

Sir Al Aynsley-Green calls England's attitude to the importance of children a 'national disgrace'

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Friday, November 17, 2023

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‘Circumstance for childhood in this country today is utterly, uttlery dire’, the first children’s commissioner for England, Sir Al Aynsley-Green told delegates attending LEYF’s annual Margaret Horn debate.

Early years job vacancies up by 146 per cent on pre-pandemic levels

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Friday, February 16, 2024

| Nursery World

Job vacancies for early years practitioners have risen by 146 per cent since before the Covid-19 pandemic, reveals new data.

Ministers provide 'temporary fix' so parents can get their code for the extended hours

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Monday, January 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Ministers have actioned a last-minute ‘workaround’ to ensure that thousands of parents of two year-olds can get their codes to take-up a funded place.

London Mayor urged to take action on early years funding

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| Nursery World

The Mayor of London is being urged to lobby the Government to review funding rates for early years places.

£5bn shortfall in funding for extended ‘childcare’ offer

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

| Nursery World

There is a £5 billion per year gap between Government funding and the estimated cost of delivery to providers of the Government’s expanded childcare offer once fully rolled out, says think tank.

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Nursery World

The education secretary Gillian Keegan has said that an extra 40,000 staff will be needed to deliver the full rollout of the expanded 30 hours.

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector leaders and experts have welcomed the Chancellor’s focus on childcare reform in the Budget, but warn the funding promised will not solve the current crisis, and there is no detail as yet on funding rates for providers of the expanded 30-hour offer.

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

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Monday, April 3, 2023

| Nursery World

The Food Foundation is calling on ministers to do more to raise awareness of the Healthy Start scheme and increase its value and eligibility, after it failed to meet the Government’s own target for take-up among low-income families.

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

| Nursery World

YMCA, the largest charity provider of childcare in the UK, is closing four nurseries at the end of the month, and warns more could close, as years of underfunding and rates for 2023-24 leave early years providers ‘buckling under the strain’.

Getting the funding rates right will 'make or break' nurseries

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Nurseries warn that the promised increase in funding rates from September ‘fall well short’ of what they need to survive after years of underfunding.

Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

| Nursery World

A total of 14 local authorities have been chosen as trailblazers of the Family Hubs programme to support 'fast-track' delivery of services that the Government said would benefit thousands of families.

Truss considering axing childcare ratios altogether

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Friday, October 7, 2022

| Nursery World

Staff to child ratios in early years settings could be scrapped completely by the Prime Minister in a bid to make childcare cheaper, according to reports.

Making childminder agencies compulsory would lead to 'mass exodus' of profession – survey

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Friday, November 4, 2022

| Nursery World

More than three-quarters of Ofsted registered childminders would quit their job if it became compulsory to join an agency, reveals new research.

Policy: How the SEND Improvement Plan aims to strengthen support for young children

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

| Nursery World

A new Improvement Plan aims to end the ‘postcode lottery’ of the SEND code of practice. Karen Faux provides a guide

Government told action is needed on the cost-of-living crisis to protect children

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Educational psychologists and social workers have warned that without urgent UK Government action to fight the cost-of-living crisis, more children will be taken into care.

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| Nursery World

Community, which represents early years professionals, is launching its Early Years Charter, which sets out the 'key' workforce changes it would like the Government to implement.

Why the Online Safety Bill must include risks to youngest children

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

| Nursery World

As the Online Safety Bill goes through Parliament this year, national media headlines are focusing on the risks associated with teenagers. But for many years, early years practitioners have been raising serious concerns about the damaging effects of screentime habits on our youngest children

Call for more maintained schools to open as they continue to outperform academies

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

| Nursery World

Local authority-run schools continue to ‘outshine’ those converted to academies, according to new research by the Local Government Association (LGA).

'Babies' strapped to statues to highlight how fathers are 'left at sea' with paternity leave policy

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

| Nursery World

‘Babies’ have been strapped to five out of 100 statues in Crosby today in a stunt to represent the 5 per cent of dads who access shared parental leave, a policy which the campaign group behind the event says has ‘failed on every measure’.

Early years experts claim the DfE has deemed them 'unsuitable' for events after monitoring their social media

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

| Nursery World

Trainer Ruth Swailes and early years lecturer, Aaron Bradbury, claim the DfE has been monitoring their activity on social media and deemed them ‘unsuitable’ to speak at Government events.

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