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Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

Wage increases, uncertainty over local authority payments for funded hours and the return of business rates, amid other costs, dampen the funding announcement. By Catherine Gaunt

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Following the announcements made in the Chancellor’s Autumn Spending Review, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of research agency Ceeda, examines how providers will be affected financially

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Childminders in more than 100 local authority areas are being restricted or having funding for entitlement offers withheld after their agency's Ofsted inspection. By Katy Morton

EXCLUSIVE In Focus: 30 hours: the hidden cost

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Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

What price are the most vulnerable children paying for the Government’s flagship childcare policy? Our FOI investigation reveals that nearly a fifth of councils have cut nursery places in the past year or are currently doing so.

Coronavirus: Sector tries to stay positive with uncertain times ahead

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries and pre-schools have spoken to Nursery World about the challenges of opening to more children in September, whether taking on new families or children who are returning for the first time since lockdown. So, what will the new normal look like in the autumn term?

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

| Nursery World

With the autumn term under way, thousands of early years providers are already feeling the knock-on effect of the pandemic, as much lower numbers of children have returned or taken up new places.

LONG READ: What funding and regulatory changes mean for the sector

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

| Nursery World

Katy Morton analyses changes coming down the track and garners opinion on the wider implications.

Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

With the pandemic having a disastrous impact on the funding of nursery schools, head teachers speak out about the urgent need for Government to find a solution. Disadvantaged families and children with SEND stand to lose most. By Catherine Gaunt

Will the Chancellor's childcare reforms work in practice?

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

The increase to ‘free’ entitlements is likely to be welcomed by parents, but the early years sector and Institute for Fiscal Studies question the practicalities and purpose. By Catherine Gaunt

EXCLUSIVE: Working Poverty, Childcare Practitioners - Childcare’s dirty secret

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

| Nursery World

We know early years education suffers from a pay problem, but just how does this affect practitioners’ ability to afford to lead ‘normal’ lives? Hannah Crown has these shocking findings from our exclusive survey

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Data experts have costed the three main parties' pledges on extended free childcare.

What does the early years sector want for the coming year?

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Leading figures and professionals in the early years reflect on an incredibly challenging year and share their wishes for a better 2021 with Annette Rawstrone

LONG READ: Sector is split over decision to provide funded twos places

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Two surveys show that many settings will not be able to offer parents places for the extended entitlements, as the start of the roll-out of the expanded policy nears. By Catherine Gaunt

Nurseries fear refund claims following top-up fee ruling

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

| Nursery World

Top-up fees have always been a grey area, and now a nursery and county council have been found to have broken the rules following an intervention by the Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman. So what does this mean for the sector? Hannah Crown reports

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

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Monday, February 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Higher-quality early years education does not involve ‘substantially higher cost’, according to new research commissioned by the DfE, which also found that maintained provision has higher delivery costs than the PVI sector.

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Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

EXCLUSIVE In Focus: 30 hours: the hidden cost

Coronavirus: Sector tries to stay positive with uncertain times ahead

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

LONG READ: What funding and regulatory changes mean for the sector

Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

Will the Chancellor's childcare reforms work in practice?

EXCLUSIVE: Working Poverty, Childcare Practitioners - Childcare’s dirty secret

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

What does the early years sector want for the coming year?

LONG READ: Sector is split over decision to provide funded twos places

Nurseries fear refund claims following top-up fee ruling

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

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