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

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

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Families on low-incomes in Wales are using funded childcare more than their better-off peers, research has found, but some have been landed with unexpected bills.

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

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Monday, November 26, 2018

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Nearly nine in ten providers offering the 30 hours in Wales agree that the rate is viable, according to findings from research into the early implementer phase of the scheme.

Councils have millions in unspent early years funding, investigation reveals

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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

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Early years settings in England are missing out on more than £55m in Government funding for childcare places, according to a Freedom of Information investigation by the National Day Nurseries Association.

Sector accuses Government of misleading it over early years funding

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

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Early years sector organisations have reacted with alarm to more details of funding for the next three financial years, which confirms that the extra money announced for early years entitlements in the autumn budget is £320m less than was stated at the time.

Nursery owners borrow money to cover delayed 30-hour payments

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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Childcare providers across the country have been forced to borrow money to pay staff wages and bills because of local authorites' failure to pay the funding for the 30 hours on time.

Rise in setting closures linked to 30 hours

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Friday, May 25, 2018

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A growing number of settings up and down the country are closing or expect to close due to financial difficulties exacerbated by the introduction of the 30 hours.

Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

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Friday, January 3, 2020

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Children living in the poorest areas are less likely to attend formal childcare settings and their parents are less aware of the free entitlement, according to new DfE statistics.

Early years Alliance files complaint over DfE refusal to release funding data

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

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The Early Years Alliance has lodged a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office over the Department for Education's refusal to release calculations to back up its claims that early years funding rates for 2021-22 do cover rising costs to staff wages.

Halfon: Select Committee chair talks skills and 30 hours

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Monday, February 19, 2018

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Nursery World sat down with Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee and former apprenticeship and skills minister, to discuss his thoughts on T Levels, vocational training, 30 hours and children’s centres.

£60m awarded to grow 30-hour childcare in Wales

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

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The Welsh government has earmarked £60m to build or refurbish more than 100 Childcare settings as part of expanding 30-hour childcare.

Cross-party MPs call for the 30 hours to be extended to all pre-school children

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

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The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Healthy Childhood is calling for the 30 hours of funded childcare to be extended to all UK three- and four-year-old children to help those families most in need.

Zahawi dismisses funding concerns about 'successful' 30 hours

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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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Children’s minister Nadhim Zahawi restates 30 hours' 'success story' to MPs in Parliament.

Providers invited to share experiences of 30 hours

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Friday, July 20, 2018

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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has launched a survey to gather early years providers’ experiences of delivering the 30 hours in the policy's first year.

Early years funding for three-and four-years-olds to rise by 17p an hour

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

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The hourly funding rate paid by the Government to local authorities for the three-and four-year-old entitlements will rise by 17p an hour in most local authority areas in England from April, the Department for Education has confirmed.

Continuing struggle for parents to find a 30 hours place

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Friday, April 13, 2018

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The latest DfE figures on 30-hour codes for the summer term show 50,000 parents who have been issued a code have not had it validated, suggesting an increasing struggle to find a childcare place.

Labour analysis shows growing cost of childcare for parents

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

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Analysis by Labour of official DfE figures has found that the average cost of an hour of childcare for a two-year-old is now 14 per cent higher than in 2018, when the 30 hours was introduced.

Make 30 hours funded childcare universal to close the attainment gap

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Thursday, August 19, 2021

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A new report renews the call for all children to be made eligible for the extended entitlement amid concerns the Coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers.

Parents increasingly shunning 30 hours charges

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Monday, November 11, 2019

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Childcare providers are increasingly struggling to get parents to agree to pay a voluntary contribution to take up their 30-hours place.

Childcare providers to lobby MPs on 30 hours

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

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Over 100 nursery owners and practitioners are to gather in Parliament on 18 July to lobby MPs on the 30 hours.

£60m to expand 30 hours provision in Wales

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Friday, July 13, 2018

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The Welsh Government has committed £60m to develop more early years provision ahead of the introduction of the 30 hours.

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

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

Councils have millions in unspent early years funding, investigation reveals

Sector accuses Government of misleading it over early years funding

Nursery owners borrow money to cover delayed 30-hour payments

Rise in setting closures linked to 30 hours

Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

Early years Alliance files complaint over DfE refusal to release funding data

Halfon: Select Committee chair talks skills and 30 hours

£60m awarded to grow 30-hour childcare in Wales

Cross-party MPs call for the 30 hours to be extended to all pre-school children

Zahawi dismisses funding concerns about 'successful' 30 hours

Providers invited to share experiences of 30 hours

Early years funding for three-and four-years-olds to rise by 17p an hour

Continuing struggle for parents to find a 30 hours place

Labour analysis shows growing cost of childcare for parents

Make 30 hours funded childcare universal to close the attainment gap

Parents increasingly shunning 30 hours charges

Childcare providers to lobby MPs on 30 hours

£60m to expand 30 hours provision in Wales

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