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NDNA launches childcare challenge

Monday, June 23, 2014

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association's manifesto calls on the next Government to make childcare the number one priority.

Early years expert group's 12-point general election plan

News

Monday, July 14, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years experts are calling for a new dedicated early years framework for all children from birth to seven.

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

News

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted has published its new Childminder agency handbook, along with the application forms that people will need if they wish to apply to become an agency.

Children's early years experiences vary widely across the country

News

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

| Nursery World

There are stark differences in early education opportunities across England, the Social Mobility Commission warns today.

Pre-School Learning Alliance warns of debt danger in childcare loan plan

News

Friday, February 10, 2012

| Nursery World

The early years and childcare organisation has slammed proposals put forward by a think-tank to allow working parents to borrow up to 10,000 to pay for childcare.

Childcare costs survey: nursery fees rise by 6 per cent in a year

News

Friday, February 24, 2012

| Nursery World

The growing gap between the cost of a nursery place and parents' earnings is revealed in the annual childcare costs survey.

Social mobility plan promises £50m for school nursery places

News

Thursday, December 14, 2017

| Nursery World

A new Government plan to boost social mobility has pledged £50m to increase school-based nursery places and close the 'word gap'.

Lowest-paid spend highest percentage of wages on childcare

News

Friday, March 30, 2012

| Nursery World

Childcare costs account for more than a third of salaries in the UK, according to research, with clerical office workers among the worst hit.

Councils step in to provide school lunches after Carillion collapse

News

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

| Nursery World

The delivery of school meals and cleaning services at hundreds of schools faces uncertainty due to the collapse of construction company Carillion.

Row over daycare stress claims

News

Monday, September 12, 2011

| Nursery World

The debate about whether childcare raises stress levels in young children is in the spotlight again, following a research review by controversial psychologist Aric Sigman.

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

News

Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours childcare policy could widen the gap between poorer children and their better-off peers, and should be axed unless it is properly funded, a leading education charity says today.

Sure Start: Norfolk County Council - Community trust plans to boost centre services

Features

Monday, August 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Sure Start has achieved a lot in the deprived area of Great Yarmouth - and despite drastic funding cuts, it is hoped that this good work will continue. Mary Evans reports.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

News

Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

News

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Private and voluntary nursery providers have warned that a two-tier system will be created, with children from disadvantaged families losing out on nursery places, following the announcement by children's minister Sarah Teather in last week's Nursery World that the Government will not change the rules on the free entitlement and remove the ban on top-up fees.

Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start

News

Monday, May 22, 2017

| Nursery World

The Green Party manifesto offers free universal early education and childcare to all children, with formal education starting at seven.

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

News

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Just how local authorities split early years funding between private and voluntary nurseries and maintained provision in schools and nursery schools has long been a bone of contention.

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

News

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

| Nursery World

Labour has released more details of how it would offer 30-hour childcare to all two- to four-year-olds - 1.3m children - and reverse children’s centre cuts.

International study calls for more early years funding to close the gap

News

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

| Nursery World

The OECD has welcomed the expansion of 30 hours of funded childcare but urged governments to do more to improve access to quality provision for disadvantaged children.

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

News

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

| Nursery World

Loopholes in Ofsted's Voluntary Childcare Register (VCR) mean that the inspectorate is approving nannies with inadequate documentation who in some cases do not even have the right to work in the UK, childcare agencies have warned.

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

News

Thursday, September 29, 2011

| Nursery World

More nurseries made a loss last year than in the previous ten years, according to a Government-commissioned survey.

Thousands of parents unable to access a 30-hour place

News

Thursday, October 12, 2017

| Nursery World

More than 21,000 codes issued to parents for the 30 hours by the end of August have still not been validated by providers or local authorities.

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

News

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government should invest in early years services to help fight child poverty, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility said in a speech yesterday.

NICE advice focuses on emotional and social well-being of under-fives

News

Friday, October 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners should be 'systematic and persistent' in encouraging vulnerable parents to use early years services, new NHS guidance on the social and emotional well-being of under-fives states.

Childminders' professionalism at risk with introduction of agencies

News

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector has urged caution over plans to introduce childminding agencies, as set out in the Children and Families Bill.

Play England loses all Government contracts

News

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

| Nursery World

National play organisation Play England has lost all its Government funding.

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NDNA launches childcare challenge

Early years expert group's 12-point general election plan

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

Children's early years experiences vary widely across the country

Pre-School Learning Alliance warns of debt danger in childcare loan plan

Childcare costs survey: nursery fees rise by 6 per cent in a year

Social mobility plan promises £50m for school nursery places

Lowest-paid spend highest percentage of wages on childcare

Councils step in to provide school lunches after Carillion collapse

Row over daycare stress claims

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

Sure Start: Norfolk County Council - Community trust plans to boost centre services

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

Top-up fee ban 'will split nursery sector', providers warn

Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start

New benchmarking tool will let providers compare data on local authority funding

Labour sets out universal childcare plans

International study calls for more early years funding to close the gap

'Unfit' nannies being approved by Ofsted

Rise in number of childcare providers losing money

Thousands of parents unable to access a 30-hour place

Affordable childcare must be priority to end child poverty, says Alan Milburn

NICE advice focuses on emotional and social well-being of under-fives

Childminders' professionalism at risk with introduction of agencies

Play England loses all Government contracts

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