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Sam Gyimah to face questions about under-funding from House of Lords committee

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The Select Committee on Affordable Childcare is to question the childcare minister on the underfunding of the free entitlement.

Nursery owners design ‘Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding’ cards

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Friday, May 13, 2016

| Nursery World

Thousands of individually-designed cards opposing the Government’s policies on the free entitlement will be mailed out by campaigning nurseries on National Children’s Day.

Nursery group secures £1.6m loan to support business during pandemic

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

| Nursery World

Children 1st has secured a £1.6 million loan to support the business during the coronavirus crisis and keep nurseries open for key workers.

Sharp rise in number of nurseries making a loss – survey

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten private, voluntary or independent nurseries in England are making a loss or only just breaking even, according to a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association.

DfE offers childminder start-up grants for 30 hours

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Friday, February 24, 2017

| Nursery World

Newly registered childminders and childminder agencies can apply for grants of up to £1,000, if they are planning to offer the Government’s funded 30-hour childcare places.

Nursery World Business Summit: Labour reiterates breakfast club pledge, but promises wider childcare reforms

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

| Nursery World

Bridget Phillipson, shadow education secretary, said that a Labour Government would ‘fix’ the country’s ‘broken childcare system’, in a speech to delegates at Nursery World’s 9th Business Summit.

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

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Monday, January 27, 2020

| Nursery World

A legal challenge, a PR campaign and a working group were mooted as solutions to raise the profile of unsustainable childcare funding with the public, in crunch talks last week.

Childcare providers among hundreds of firms not eligible for Government help

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

| Nursery World

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has been inundated with emails from the self-employed and small companies, including childcare providers, that are missing out on Government support during the coronavirus crisis.

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.

Council cut brings end to charity-run children's centres

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Friday, August 9, 2013

| Nursery World

Barnardo's and Action for Children have lost their contracts to run seven children's centres in Leicester in a council bid to save 1.7m a year.

Nursery group subsidising free places in Scottish settings

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

Bertram has revealed it is subsidising places for three and four-year-old at its Glasgow settings because of a cap on its funded places.

Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

| Nursery World

New guidance to help early years settings calculate the real cost of providing funded childcare places is now available.

Poor areas hit hardest by rising nursery closures

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Thursday, September 12, 2019

| Nursery World

More nurseries are closing in the most deprived areas of the country than elsewhere, according to analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association.

Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The cost to private and voluntary nurseries of last month’s budget is £437m according to an analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association.

Tax-Free Childcare goes live

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Monday, April 24, 2017

| Nursery World

From today, working parents of children under four can start using Tax-Free Childcare, as well as sign up ahead of the 30-hour September roll-out.

DfE publishes 30 hours guide for early years providers and councils

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Monday, April 24, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has published operational guidance for 30-hour childcare.

Plush new home mapped out for pre-school

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Monday, August 15, 2016

| Nursery World

Building is due to start on a multi-million pound school expansion which will provide brand new premises for a pre-school that has spent nearly 16 years in an outdoor cabin.

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Sixty teaching schools will share £5m of Government funding in partnerships with local nurseries.

Nurseries plan to restrict 30 hour places and charge parents

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

| Nursery World

Many nurseries that plan to offer 30 hour childcare from next month can only do so by limiting places, raising concerns that thousands of working parents could miss out.

Analysis: 30 hours pilot study predicts success but flags up 'risks'

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Monday, July 24, 2017

| Nursery World

Following the publication of the evaluation of the 30-hour pilots, we take an in-depth look at the findings.

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Sam Gyimah to face questions about under-funding from House of Lords committee

Nursery owners design ‘Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding’ cards

Nursery group secures £1.6m loan to support business during pandemic

Sharp rise in number of nurseries making a loss – survey

DfE offers childminder start-up grants for 30 hours

Nursery World Business Summit: Labour reiterates breakfast club pledge, but promises wider childcare reforms

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

Childcare providers among hundreds of firms not eligible for Government help

DfE study finds quality ‘does not cost substantially more’

Council cut brings end to charity-run children's centres

Nursery group subsidising free places in Scottish settings

Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

Poor areas hit hardest by rising nursery closures

Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds

Tax-Free Childcare goes live

DfE publishes 30 hours guide for early years providers and councils

Plush new home mapped out for pre-school

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

Nurseries plan to restrict 30 hour places and charge parents

Analysis: 30 hours pilot study predicts success but flags up 'risks'

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