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Funded pre-school places are still up in the air

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
The fate of up to 1,000 funded places for three- and four-year-olds remains uncertain after pre-schools in Buckinghamshire said they still do not know if they will be able to charge for extra services to parents who use less than their 15-hour free entitlement.

Costs soar for all childcare places

    News
  • Wednesday, February 10, 2010
    • | Nursery World
The cost of places with nurseries and childminders in England has risen by almost double the rate of inflation, figures from the Daycare Trust's annual childcare costs survey show.

PVI nurseries required to tender for places

    News
  • Tuesday, February 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Private and voluntary nurseries in Renfrewshire are the first nurseries in Scotland to be asked to set the figure for the grant they receive from the local authority for nursery education places for three- and four-year-olds.

Busy Bees takes up NDNA quality scheme

    News
  • Tuesday, February 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Nursery chain Busy Bees is investing 28,000 in piloting the NDNA's quality assurance programme, called eQC, across 33 of its self-governing settings.

Treetops up to no 10 in UK chains after deals

    News
  • Tuesday, January 19, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Treetops Nurseries is now the tenth biggest nursery group in the country, after deals with two small chains added 500 more childcare places and seven more nurseries to the business.

Demand for nursery baby places starts to dip

    News
  • Tuesday, January 19, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Many nurseries are experiencing a decline in the demand for baby places at their setting, a trend that they have attributed to the economic climate and new employment rights such as flexible working.

Nursery Chains: League tables - Buying time

    Features
  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The past year has seen consolidation in the sector with the major chains growing through acquisitions and the number of places rising, despite the ongoing economic recession. Catherine Gaunt reports.

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