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Institutional failures over child sex abuse revealed

Thursday, November 20, 2014

| Nursery World

Children are at risk of sex abuse because of failures by councils and other agencies to get a grip on the problem, a damning new report has found.

Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes

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Friday, February 15, 2019

| Nursery World

Children in the most deprived area of the country have seen a huge improvement in their outcomes at the end of the EYFS following a major programme of targeted Government investment.

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector has slammed the Department for Education's (DfE) financial analysis of the ratio proposals as a 'fantasy'.

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted has confirmed that early years inspections will continue to be outsourced to third-party inspection providers.

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

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Friday, January 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has written to sector organisations to notify them of Government plans to consult on a rise to the annual Ofsted fees for childcare providers.

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

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Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Ofsted report says best place for twos is in schools

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Monday, April 7, 2014

| Nursery World

The early years sector has been left in no doubt that Ofsted believes that the best place for the poorest two-year-olds is in schools.

Ofsted figures show notable rise in good and outstanding grades

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

The number of nurseries and childminders awarded good or outstanding grades has risen markedly over the last quarter, the latest Ofsted figures show.

Disqualification rules 'ineffective', say providers

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Monday, April 20, 2015

| Nursery World

Rules banning early years staff from working with children because of who they live with are 'unfair' and 'ineffective', nurseries claim.

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

Ofsted early years consultation: investment is key, sector says

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Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

There has been a mixed response from the early years sector to Ofsted's proposals to increase the frequency of inspections for weaker settings and replace the grade of 'satisfactory' with 'requires improvement'.

Quality care hangs in the balance

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Friday, May 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The staff:child ratio changes ignore the competing demands on staff particularly from children with emotional needs and the new two-year-old intake, says Pat Gordon-Smith.

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.

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

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Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously outstanding nursery has been downgraded to inadequate after staff photographed children on their mobiles and sent the pictures to parents.

Government brings forward 30-hour childcare and funding review

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Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

David Cameron will today unveil plans for a funding review to start ‘before the summer’ in advance of a pilot of 30 hours of free childcare from September 2016.

Ofsted set for radical overhaul to unite education inspections

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years settings, schools and colleges will be inspected under a new common inspection framework from September, with shorter and more frequent inspections.

Coronavirus: DfE updates early years guidance in response to PM 'roadmap'

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| Nursery World

Wraparound childcare, including care provided by childminders, can restart from 8 March, as part of the gradual easing of lockdown restrictions announced yesterday.

Opposition parties win childcare voucher extension

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The scrapping of childcare vouchers has been delayed, after Labour forced a vote on the issue in the House of Commons yesterday.

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

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Monday, March 27, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.

First glimpse of new inspections framework shows improvements for childminders

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

| Nursery World

Childminders have performed better than nurseries in initial results from the first two months of the new inspections framework.

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Institutional failures over child sex abuse revealed

Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

Ofsted report says best place for twos is in schools

Ofsted figures show notable rise in good and outstanding grades

Disqualification rules 'ineffective', say providers

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

Ofsted early years consultation: investment is key, sector says

Quality care hangs in the balance

Exclusive - Analysis uncovers true cost of party childcare pledges

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

Government brings forward 30-hour childcare and funding review

Ofsted set for radical overhaul to unite education inspections

Coronavirus: DfE updates early years guidance in response to PM 'roadmap'

Opposition parties win childcare voucher extension

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

First glimpse of new inspections framework shows improvements for childminders

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