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Many providers to receive £5 or less per hour for funded places

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Despite DfE claims that childcare settings will now receive a ‘boost’ in funding rates (as of last week - 1 September), many providers say they are to receive £5 or less per hour for three and four-year-old places.

RAAC: Teaching unions demand an apology for education secretary's 'insulting' remarks

News

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have written to the education secretary demanding an apology for her ‘insulting’ and ‘unacceptable’ remarks that ‘some schools need to get off their backsides’ in the RAAC crisis.

Scotland's first minister announces funded childcare expansion

News

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.

Brett Wigdortz: Landlords should be encouraged to accommodate childminders, but so should local authorities

Opinion

Monday, September 4, 2023

| Nursery World

An inability to obtain landlord permission is one of the most common reasons trainee childminders leave our registration process, says the chief executive of Tiney childminding agency.

RAAC: Primary academy to move nursery and Reception children to classrooms without 'bubbly' concrete

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Monday, September 4, 2023

| Nursery World

A primary academy in Essex, impacted by Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), has pushed back its term date and will move nursery, Reception, Years 1 and 2 to classrooms without the material.

Tammy Campbell: We need to ensure the extended entitlement doesn't worsen inequalities and disadvangtage

Opinion

Friday, September 1, 2023

| Nursery World

The director for early years at the Education Policy Institute says that the focus of early education has now shifted from children, to concentrate instead on promoting parental employment, which is problematic.

Nurseries and schools containing 'bubbly form' of concrete told to close by DfE

News

Friday, September 1, 2023

| Nursery World

Nurseries are among the 104 educational settings in England that have been told by the DfE to shut buildings made with a certain type of concrete until safety measures are introduced.

Children's minister Claire Coutinho promoted to energy secretary

News

Thursday, August 31, 2023

| Nursery World

The children’s minister Claire Coutinho has been promoted to the role of energy secretary in the Prime Minister’s mini reshuffle.

David Johnston confirmed as new children's minister

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

| Nursery World

David Johnston has been confirmed as the new children’s minister by the Department for Education, replacing Claire Coutinho.

Rishi Sunak found 'inadvertently' to have broken ministerial code over failure to declare wife's shares in childminding agency

News

Thursday, August 24, 2023

| Nursery World

Rishi Sunak ‘inadvertently’ broke parliamentary rules, according to the findings of an investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner.

DfE announces an extra 2,000 funded SENCo training places

News

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

| Nursery World

The DfE has made available an extra 2,000 free places on the accredited level 3 early years special educational needs training programme to increase the number of SENCos in England.

Children's minister calls for restrictions to be lifted preventing childminders from working from rented homes

News

Monday, August 21, 2023

| Nursery World

Claire Coutinho is urging housing associations and landlords to remove clauses in leases that prevent childminders from working from home, in a bid to boost the numbers working in the profession.

New childcare coalition aims to help shape early years policy

News

Monday, August 21, 2023

| Nursery World

A coalition of early years and childcare organisations and charities have come together to challenge the Government to invest in an early education system that works for all.

Dame Christine Gilbert named incoming chair of Education Endowment Foundation

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Dame Christine Gilbert, a former Ofsted chief inspector, has been named as the new chair of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), replacing Sir Peter Lampl.

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

News

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).

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

Nannies’ salaries rocket as families struggle to access nursery places

News

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

| Nursery World

A lack of nursery places is boosting demand for nannies, who have seen their wages rise by 11 per cent over the last year, latest research has revealed.

Childminder’s petition to end Ofsted’s ‘reign of terror’ attracts 100,000 signatures

News

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

| Nursery World

A childminder’s petition to ensure any reform of Ofsted inspections also applies to early years settings, has attracted more than 100,000 signatures.

Parents warned they could struggle to find a funded place under new Govt offer

News

Monday, July 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Early years providers are unsure whether they will offer the funded places for one and two-year-olds, while many that plan to will limit the number that are available, reveal new survey findings.

Ofsted and CQC to carry out review into family hubs

News

Friday, July 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission are to carry out a joint review of support services for parents from conception to the age of two that are delivered through family hubs.

MPs tell the DfE 'there are holes that need fixing' with its childcare policies

News

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

| Nursery World

Cross-party MPs are warning the Government has more work to do with its incoming childcare policies to ensure children benefit from high-quality affordable early years education to help parents and providers.

DfE launches consultation on proposed funding formula for 30 hours expansion

News

Friday, July 21, 2023

| Nursery World

The DfE has launched its consultation on its new proposed ‘fair funding formula’ for the delivery of the extension of the funded hours for children from nine months old, starting from April.

Political parties told to simplify early years funding system

News

Thursday, July 20, 2023

| Nursery World

Ahead of the next general election, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) is calling on the political parties to simplify the early years funding system and weight it ‘more heavily’ towards children with SEND and from low-income families.

Families face fewer holiday childcare places and increased costs

News

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

| Nursery World

There has been a drop in the availability of summer holiday childcare provision across England, while the cost of a place has increased by 3 per cent since last year.

Comedian Matt Lucas throws a 'Tantrum' to highlight the global early years crisis

News

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

| Nursery World

Comedian and presenter Matt Lucas has got behind Theirworld’s Act for Early Years campaign, launching a ‘Global Tantrum’ in protest at a lack of investment in the sector.

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