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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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New research by the EYA highlights a lack of data held by councils on whether parents can access childcare to suit their needs, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Government claims there are enough childcare places to meet demand branded ‘meaningless’

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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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Maggie Bolger: 'There are a number of viable solutions that will have far greater impact than a quick fix, headline grabbing £500 sign-on bonus'
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Maggie Bolger: 'Why a £500 sign-on bonus for childcare workers won't work'

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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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Coram Family and Childcare has released its annual Childcare Survey on sufficency of places and childcare costs, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Reform of the childcare system 'urgent' as childcare places become less available

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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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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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The Women's Budget Group wants the Chancellor to commit to adequately fund childcare, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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Chancellor urged to boost childcare funding by estimated shortfall

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Barnado's chief executive and actress Michelle Collins have handed the petition to No.10 Downing Street, PHOTO: Barnardo's
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Petition calling for free school meals for all primary children to be delivered to 10 Downing Street

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Plum Money app have written a letter to the Prime Minister to ask for more support for early education, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
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PM told to 'prioritise' childcare and deliver more support for early education

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Edelweiss Childcare is a Rutland member
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Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

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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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Emma Fraser of the National Deaf Children’s Society, which is calling on the Government to use the SEND Review to make the involvement of teachers of the deaf mandatory in all two-year old checks for deaf children
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Emma Fraser: Teachers of the deaf should be involved in all two-year-old checks for deaf children

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Oliver Hancock with his grandad David, the chief executive of The Nursery Family
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Grandson of nursery group CEO to hold sponsored silence in aid of earthquake victims

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