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Sarah Teather confirms multi-million pound contract to support two-year-old nursery places

Thursday, June 21, 2012

| Nursery World

The management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald has been awarded the 4m contract to support the Government's rollout of childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.

Childcare costs parents as much as mortgage

News

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

| Nursery World

More than a third of parents have considered quitting their job because of childcare costs, according to a new survey.

Campaigners publish case against the baseline

News

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

| Nursery World

A coalition of educational experts, teachers and parents is calling for the Government to abandon plans for a new baseline for four-year-olds.

Spring statement: apprenticeships, T-levels and business rates

News

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

In the spring statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that he was announcing £80m to support small businesses in engaging apprenticeships.

Teaching union warns against the danger of profit making schools

News

Monday, September 3, 2012

| Nursery World

The Association of Teaching and Learning's new president Hank Roberts has spoken out against Education Secretary Michael Gove's plans for schools to be run for profit.

Stigma leads poorer children to shun free school meals

News

Monday, September 24, 2012

| Nursery World

Schools should allow all children eating a packed lunch and schools meals to eat together at the same time to increase take-up of free school meals, a new study recommends.

Councils face cuts to early intervention funding

News

Friday, September 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Where the Department for Education has found 100m for capital funding to support early years settings to expand places for two-year-olds, is unclear.

Minister sets out more details on funding rates for childcare reforms

News

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

| Nursery World

Children's minister Claire Couthino says that national average hourly funding rate for two-year-olds will rise to £8 this September and to £5.50 for three-to-four-year-olds. When the offer of 15 hours for children aged nine months and above is launched in September 2024, hourly funding is expected to be around £11 – with promises of ‘more to come’.

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

News

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Childminders in more than 100 local authority areas are being restricted or having funding for entitlement offers withheld after their agency's Ofsted inspection. By Katy Morton

Seven in ten nurseries would not change staff: child ratios for two-year-olds, Government consultation finds

News

Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Most respondents to the Department for Education's consultation on changes to staff: child ratios for two-year-olds are against the plans, which the Government says will start in September.

Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

News

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Findings from a survey of providers, reveal that 89 per cent are likely to increase fees this year, while more than a third believe they will have to close their setting within the next year due to rising costs.

Rebekah Jackson Reece: Extra Government funding to increase supply of wrap-around care 'will do nothing to support a sector already in crisis'

Opinion

Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The director of the Out-of-School Alliance (OOSA) has welcomed the additional Government investment in wrap-around care, announced within the Budget, with 'caution'.

Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

News

Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has broadly welcomed the Budget announcement to boost the number of childminders by introducing start-up grants, however expressed disappointment over a lack of support for those currently in the profession.

Liz Bayram to step down as CEO of PACEY

News

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Liz Bayram, chief executive of the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY), is leaving the role at the end of January.

Universal childcare up to 11 would save parents thousands and add billions to economy – report

News

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

| Nursery World

A universal childcare guarantee for children up until the end of primary school, would create an extra £13 billion for the economy and boost parents’ wages, according to a new report by the IPPR and Save the Children.

Megan Stephens: How the legacy of Victorian philanthropy lives on in the campaign for free school meals

Opinion

Friday, January 6, 2023

| Nursery World

We may be forgiven for thinking we’re living in the midst of a novel by Charles Dickens, says Megan Stephens, who highlights an unlikely link between a Victorian champion of education, one of the world’s most famous scientists, and an English star of the Qatar World Cup.

Early years action group to stage protest in March

News

Monday, January 16, 2023

| Nursery World

A protest has been organised for the early years sector in London in two months' time.

Claire Coutinho MP confirmed as children's minister

News

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

| Nursery World

Claire Coutinho, MP for East Surrey, has been named the new minister for children, families and wellbeing within the Department for Education (DfE), replacing Kelly Tolhurst.

More pressure put on families as inflation returns to 40-year high

News

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

| Nursery World

Further concerns have been raised for families with the news that inflation has returned to a 40-year high of 10.1 per cent.

EXCLUSIVE In Focus: 30 hours: the hidden cost

News

Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

What price are the most vulnerable children paying for the Government’s flagship childcare policy? Our FOI investigation reveals that nearly a fifth of councils have cut nursery places in the past year or are currently doing so.

Wales launches ant-racist training and resources for practitioners working with babies and young children

News

Friday, May 12, 2023

| Nursery World

The Welsh government has launched anti-racist professional training for the childcare, playwork and early years sector.

Proposed Government changes to childcare qualifications spark concern about 'de-professionalisation' of the workforce'

News

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, experts and consultants are worried that Government proposals on changes to early years qualifications, outlined in a consultation launched today, could lower standards and ultimately, the quality of care.

Cross party MPs to consider whether Ofsted school inspections could be improved

News

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

| Nursery World

The Education Committee has today launched a new inquiry into the way Ofsted inspects schools.

Award winning nursery one of six settings chosen to lead DfE's Stronger Practice Hubs

News

Thursday, July 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Former Nursery World award winner, Everton Nursery School and Family Centre in Liverpool is one of six nurseries chosen to lead the DfE’s network of Early Years Stronger Practice Hubs.

Research Nurseries: On a learning curve

Features

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

| Nursery World

In the last of the series, researcher Gemma Goldenberg discusses what research- informed practice means to different settings and unpicks some of the differing views about what works

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