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DfE to reform Level 3 early years qualifications

Friday, October 29, 2021

| Nursery World

The Department for Education is to review and reform level 3 early years qualifications as part of its measures to address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young children.

Family First nursery group grows to 30 settings

News

Friday, October 29, 2021

| Nursery World

The rapidly growing nursery group Family First has acquired a chain of settings in Essex and two standalone sites, taking its number of nurseries to 30.

Children’s minister confirms £510m total increase for early years funding

News

Thursday, October 28, 2021

| Nursery World

Children and families minister Will Quince has confirmed that the Government is providing an additional £510m for early years funding over the next three years, despite initial announcements of £170m by 2024-25.

Time to level all the way up

Opinion

Thursday, October 28, 2021

| Nursery World

The Chancellor had some tough decisions to make in his Spending Review, but I am not convinced he placed every child at the heart of it by providing the real cost of investment.

Autumn Budget 2021: Early years sector gives cautious welcome to funding increase

News

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

| Nursery World

While Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced £170m for early years funding by 2024-25 in his Budget speech today, Nursery World now understands that there will be additional funding in 2022-23 and 2023-24 that was not initially set out.

Autumn Budget 2021: £170m for childcare providers

News

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

| Nursery World

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged £170m more for childcare providers in early years funding by 2024-25.

Spending Review 2021: £500m earmarked for children and families

News

Monday, October 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Ahead of this week’s budget and spending review, the chancellor has announced £500m for families and early years support - however there is no sign of any increase in funding for the 15 and 30 hour entitlements.

Busy Bees Childcare moves into New Zealand

News

Friday, October 22, 2021

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Childcare, the UK largest nursery provider, has announced its first acquisition in New Zealand and is expanding its sites in Australia.

Spending Review Autumn 2021: Chancellor urged to invest in babies and children

News

Thursday, October 21, 2021

| Nursery World

A coalition of children’s sector organisations is calling on the Chancellor to use his Spending Review, next week, to provide ‘much-needed' cross-Government investment in babies, children and young people.

Pupils face income loss of £46,000 due to Covid disruption

News

Thursday, October 21, 2021

| Nursery World

Children and young people face losing thousands of pounds in earnings during their lifetime from the impact of the pandemic on lost learning, according to new research.

Suffolk nursery wins award for SEND provision

News

Thursday, October 21, 2021

| Nursery World

Anglia Sunshine Nurseries in Sudbury has won the nasen 2021 award for Early Years Provision, sponsored by Nursery World.

'Dysfunctional' childcare system in urgent need of reform - report

News

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

| Nursery World

A radical rethink of the way the early years system works is needed, according to a new report from the Nuffield Foundation.

Early years attendance improves - but numbers still lower than pre-Covid

News

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

| Nursery World

The latest Department for Education (DfE) statistics show that while the number of children in early years settings has risen since last month, attendance is still down on pre-pandemic levels.

Nursery groups grow their businesses

News

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

| Nursery World

Derbyshire-based White House Nursery Group has bought its sixth setting, while Back to the Garden Childcare has started construction on its second site.

Hackney parents fight to save children's centres from closure

News

Monday, October 18, 2021

| Nursery World

A group pf parents are campaigning against the proposed closure of two children’s centres in Hackney, which together provide more than 100 childcare places.

Teachers brand new tests for four- and five-year-olds 'a waste of time'

News

Thursday, October 14, 2021

| Nursery World

Nearly 9 in 10 teachers in a survey believe that the Reception Baseline is a waste of teaching time, according to a survey.

Wales pledges £36.6m to support Covid recovery for children and families

News

Thursday, October 7, 2021

| Nursery World

The Welsh government has announced more funding to help support children’s wellbeing and recovery for families from the pandemic, including funding for play and to increase childcare places.

MPs urge ministers to look at ways to provide 'greater security' to childcare sector

News

Thursday, October 7, 2021

| Nursery World

Cross-party MPs are calling on the Government to commission a review into the funding and affordability of childcare, and how to provide greater security to the sector following the pandemic.

More than 79,000 children in Scotland taking up their 1,140-hour place

News

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

| Nursery World

The latest figures show that 90,890 children were accessing their funded place at the end of August, with 87 per cent of those taking up the full 1,140 hours.

Call on Government for long-term funding for maintained nursery schools

News

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

| Nursery World

Sector organisation Early Education with the unions NAHT, NEU and Unison have written a joint letter to the Chancellor and the Education Secretary to call for a long-term funding solution for maintained nursery schools, ahead of the autumn spending review.

A quarter of schools reach Covid limit - head teacher survey

News

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

| Nursery World

The number of schools breaching the threshold for Covid cases set by the Government has reached 26 per cent, according to a survey by the NAHT.

Dukes Education buys group of 10 nurseries

News

Monday, October 4, 2021

| Nursery World

Dukes Education has acquired The Kindergartens group of 10 nurseries in London.

Welcome Nurseries continues its rapid expansion

News

Friday, October 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Fast growing Welcome Nurseries has added 17 more settings in the last four months, to take it to more than 50 sites throughout England.

Welsh Government announces extra £1.5m for childcare and playwork sector

News

Friday, September 24, 2021

| Nursery World

The Welsh Government has announced an extra £5.1 million of funding this financial year to help the childcare and playwork sector weather the impact of Covid-19.

Four-year-olds deliver petition against tests in Reception to Number 10

News

Thursday, September 23, 2021

| Nursery World

A petition signed by more than 112,000 parents, teachers and campaigners calling for an end to new Baseline tests for children starting school this term was delivered to Downing Street on Thursday.

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