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PM told to 'prioritise' childcare and deliver more support for early education

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

| Nursery World

Nearly two out of three parents are reconsidering whether to have another child due to ‘spiralling’ childcare costs, finds new research.

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

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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

All primary children in London to receive free school meals for a year

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Monday, February 20, 2023

| Nursery World

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is providing emergency funding for a year to enable all primary school children in the capital to have access to free school meals.

Working parents seek practical support from employers to balance family life

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Friday, February 17, 2023

| Nursery World

Help with childcare, eldercare and ongoing support for families have been highlighted as key areas for employee retention in a new report by nursery and back-up care provider, Bright Horizons.

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

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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.

Anne Longfield: Why the Government's commitment to Family Hubs is 'not enough'

Opinion

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

| Nursery World

The chair of the Young Lives Commission and former Children's Commissioner for England, says the Government's ambition for Family Hubs is 'nowhere near the scale of what families need', nor is it enough to replace 'hundreds of closed Sure Start centres'.

Disadvantaged children 'positively benefit' from 20 hours a week of early years education – research

News

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

| Nursery World

There are clear benefits for disadvantaged children spending up to 20 hours per week in early years provision, Sutton Trust study finds.

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.

Early years action group to stage protest in March

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Monday, January 16, 2023

| Nursery World

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

Rishi Sunak believed to have scrapped childcare ratio changes

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

The Government has declined to confirm or deny reports that Rishi Sunak has ditched plans to relax staff-to-child ratios in nurseries, alongside scrapping other childcare reforms.

Cross-party MPs launch inquiry into childcare affordability

News

Thursday, December 15, 2022

| Nursery World

The Education Committee has today (15 December) launched a new inquiry into the affordability of childcare and early years education.

MPs seek law change so childcare is recognised as vital infrastructure

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Monday, December 12, 2022

| Nursery World

Cross-party MPs are seeking to change the law so childcare is recognised as a crucial part of local infrastructure.

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.

Think tank puts forward ideas to fix the UK's 'broken' childcare system

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Friday, December 2, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report calls for the UK’s ‘broken childcare’ system to be fixed, providing recommendations to tackle its ‘complexity, inflexibility’ and the ‘dysfunctional provider market’.

Nurseries forced to increase fees for thousands of parents – survey

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Friday, December 2, 2022

| Nursery World

Nursery fees for 83 per cent of parents have either increased or are set to increase in the next two months, reveals new research.

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