Catherine Gaunt

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Minister sets out more details on funding rates for childcare reforms

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The Chancellor wants to boost female employment by increasing childcare to 30 hours from the age of nine months
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Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

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The Government is going ahead with plans to increase the number of two-year-olds nursery and pre-school staff can care for to 1 to 5
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Seven in ten nurseries would not change staff: child ratios for two-year-olds, Government consultation finds

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The Chancellor is expected to announce 30-hour funding for parents of one-and two-year-olds, but will the numbers add up for early years providers? PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivering his budget speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday Photo Screengrab from the BBC
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Budget 2023: Chancellor pledges ‘landmark childcare reform’

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Nurseries in England face an average 40 per cent rise in business rates from April 2023 PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Nurseries in England face sharp rise in business rates from April

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is said to be planning to bring in the controversial ratio changes, and raising entitlement funding
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Chancellor reported to be planning childcare reforms and ratio changes

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The NDNA fears that many nurseries already struggling to survive will close amid rising costs PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Average nursery loses £32,000 a year by subsidising 15-hour childcare

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Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson has pledged to reform childcare PHOTO Twitter
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Labour analysis shows growing cost of childcare for parents

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London is England’s ‘childcare affordability blackspot’, according to the Nesta analysis PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Parents could be spending up to 80 per cent of take-home pay on childcare – study

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Delegates at the Nursery World Business Summit at America Square Conference Centre in London on 7 March, 2023
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Nursery World Business Summit: Labour reiterates breakfast club pledge, but promises wider childcare reforms

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SEND improvement plan – sector response

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The Government has pledged provision to support all families and children with SEND, regardless of where they live PHOTO Adobe Stock
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SEND improvement plan: Government pledges to end postcode lottery for families and fund training for 5,000 early years SENCos

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N Family Club West Hampstead – the nursery group has the highest proportion of Outstanding Ofsted grades of the 25 biggest groups
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Nursery Chains 2023 – N Family Club stays at number one

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Nursery Chains 2023: Groups by size – gaining ground

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YMCA operates more than 80 nurseries and pre-schools in England PHOTO YMCA
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YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

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