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Ceeda Research's The Big Early Years Debate took place last week in London
News

Ceeda debate: 'Until the sector collapses you won't get investment'

Funding
Jack-in-the-Box Pre-school says its consultation was 'rushed'
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Providers left in the dark over funding rates

Funding
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Funded or free? Take our poll on the future of childcare

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One proposal being considered by the council is to close two maintained nurseries
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Maintained nurseries in Camden at risk of closure

Provision
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Parents in Wales benefiting from childcare offer but confusion over how scheme works

Policy & Politics
The DfE survey found that fewer parents in deprived areas use formal childcare
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Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

Provision
Children's minister Maree Todd on a previous visit to a nursery in Scotland
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Scottish government says childcare expansion on track, despite some delays

Provision
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Council saves charity-run nurseries

Management
Bright Minds Daycare
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West Midlands group set for expansion in 2020

Provision
Adam Price, the leader of Plaid Cymru
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Plaid Cymru manifesto: Welsh party pledges universal childcare from the age of one

Policy & Politics
Busy Bees is closing its Chandler's Ford nursery in December
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Busy Bees to close ‘unviable’ nursery next month

Business
The Ofsted statistics reveal a further decline in the number of childminders
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Number of childminders falls by a fifth

Provision
Settings are reporting parents becoming increasingly reluctant to pay any voluntary charges for funded hours
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Parents increasingly shunning 30 hours charges

30 Hours Free Childcare
Safehands Day Nursery in Harrogate
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Just Childcare buys 60th setting

Business
The cost of delivering childcare has increased by 20 per cent since last year, finds the DfE survey
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Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

Provision
According to Ofsted's chief inspector, 500 plus early years settings closed every month between Apri 2018 and March 2019
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More than 500 childcare settings closing each month

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