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Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for consultation today.

Sector response: early years national funding formula

News

Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years organsiations that have long campaigned for early years funding reform have broadly welcomed the plans.

Opening time signalled for nursery group's £2m pub expansion

News

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

| Nursery World

A £2m expansion scheme is underway after a husband and wife-run nursery group purchased two former pubs.

DfE confirms roles of new ministers

News

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

| Nursery World

The ministerial line-up at the Department for Education has finally been confirmed.

Caroline Dinenage is named early years minister

News

Monday, August 8, 2016

| Nursery World

After a delay of three weeks, Caroline Dinenage has been appointed as the minister responsible for early years and childcare.

Rural childcare in new DEFRA minister’s brief - but no sign of early years minister

News

Monday, August 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Environment minister Thérèse Coffey’s new job includes responsibility for rural childcare.

Schools embrace Baseline despite Government U-turn

News

Monday, August 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Thousands of schools are planning to use the Baseline to assess Reception children in their first few weeks at school, despite it no longer being used as an accountability measure by the Government.

Hampshire culls centres to create targeted hubs

News

Monday, August 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Hampshire County Council is closing most of its children’s centres as it moves from offering universal services to targeted support for vulnerable families.

Editor’s view - Short of capital?

Opinion

Monday, August 8, 2016

| Nursery World

As Nursery World went to press for our last issue, I wrote that we were still waiting to hear who would be the minister for childcare and early years.

Health campaign says young children should have three hours activity a day

News

Friday, July 29, 2016

| Nursery World

‘Every movement counts’ is the motto of a new Department of Health campaign to encourage children aged under five to be physically active for at least three hours a day.

Judges block ‘named person’ plans

News

Thursday, July 28, 2016

| Nursery World

The UK Supreme Court has ruled against the Scottish government’s plan for every child in Scotland to have a ‘named person’ to support their wellbeing.

Pre-school wins fight with council to stay open

News

Thursday, July 28, 2016

| Nursery World

A pre-school which faced closure to make way for a reception class has had an ‘eleventh hour, 59th minute’ reprieve following a high-profile community campaign.

Ex Montessori boss: Fraud trial set for 2017

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Former Montessori chief Philip Bujak will stand crown court trial in 2017 for his alleged role in a high-value plot to defraud the Montessori St Nicholas charity over the sale of one of its London buildings.