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

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

LONG READ: Extended hours in chaos as councils leave settings in dark on rates

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Most local authorities have yet to tell providers how much they will receive for funded places, raising doubts over how many settings will be able to offer the entitlements. By Katy Morton

New Year: The sector reveals its hopes and ambitions for 2024

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Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years professionals explain what they want the sector, and their own operations, to achieve in the year ahead, against the backdrop of ongoing challenges

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.

Exclusive – Nursery World Ofsted survey: Hundreds of nurseries and childminders report stress and sleepless nights before inspections

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

| Nursery World

Many early years respondents to Nursery World's survey highlight negative experiences of inspections and say they feel anxious about future ones. By Catherine Gaunt and Katy Morton

EXCLUSIVE: Nurseries fight for ‘no win, no fee’ court action on Covid losses

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

| Nursery World

A law firm is expecting to represent 100 nurseries whose policies did not pay out for business losses due to Covid-19. By Catherine Gaunt

Analysis - Why changing the rules is no easy fix to cost challenges

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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

| Nursery World

With childcare ratios yet again in the spotlight, what do the Government’s plans to align England with Scotland really mean for early years settings? Catherine Gaunt reports

Analysis: Settings raise concerns after bad inspection experiences - Nursery World survey

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

| Nursery World

Respondents to our survey claim they have suffered intimidation and judgements made unfairly due to the impact of Covid and staffing problems. Katy Morton reports

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Covid has seen professionals cut staff, use reserves and even sell belongings, but researchers say an early years education and care-led recovery is now vital, as Katy Morton reports

Hopes and dreams for early years in 2022 and beyond

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

| Nursery World

Twelve professionals with links to the early years reveal their aspirations for the sector in the year ahead, and set out what needs to change to ensure families’ needs are met

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

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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

A mixed picture post-furlough amid worker shortages

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| Nursery World

While some settings have seen occupancy levels bounce back, demand for others remains low following the end of the furlough scheme in September. Katy Morton reports

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

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.

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?

Coronavirus: Nurseries use hi-tech systems to reassure parents sending children to settings is safe

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

As lockdown eases, early years settings are finding that they need to adapt to stay open in a changing environment.

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: Big divide in nursery losses

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Monday, November 26, 2018

| Nursery World

Nursery World’s exclusive investigation into the first year of the 30 hours reveals stark variations in nursery closures across the country.

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.

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.

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to prove it. Hannah Crown speaks to a sector in crisis

Providers cut EYT courses due to low demand

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Monday, May 2, 2016

| Nursery World

Early Years Teacher courses are being scrapped across the country, while some new EYTs are going straight onto qualified teacher courses, a Nursery World investigation has found.

Increase staff flexibility to make ends meet, says DfE

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Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Following the Government’s review of childcare costs, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of Ceeda, asks if more use of ‘variable staffing models’ is feasible

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

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.

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

LONG READ: Extended hours in chaos as councils leave settings in dark on rates

New Year: The sector reveals its hopes and ambitions for 2024

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

Exclusive – Nursery World Ofsted survey: Hundreds of nurseries and childminders report stress and sleepless nights before inspections

EXCLUSIVE: Nurseries fight for ‘no win, no fee’ court action on Covid losses

Analysis - Why changing the rules is no easy fix to cost challenges

Analysis: Settings raise concerns after bad inspection experiences - Nursery World survey

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows

Hopes and dreams for early years in 2022 and beyond

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

A mixed picture post-furlough amid worker shortages

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

Coronavirus: Sector tries to stay positive with uncertain times ahead

Coronavirus: Nurseries use hi-tech systems to reassure parents sending children to settings is safe

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

EXCLUSIVE: Big divide in nursery losses

EXCLUSIVE In Focus: 30 hours: the hidden cost

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

Providers cut EYT courses due to low demand

Increase staff flexibility to make ends meet, says DfE

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

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