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30 hours childcare risks widening the gap in the early years

Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Better-off families are set to benefit from 30 hour childcare at the expense of poorer families, warns a new analysis by think tank CentreForum.

Government funding to expand work of FGM centre

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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

| Nursery World

A £30m Government grant will allow the National FGM Centre to continue its work to stop female genital mutilation (FGM).

Lib Dem leader gives backing to Champagne Nurseries campaign

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Monday, May 8, 2017

| Nursery World

The Champagne Nurseries, Lemonade Funding campaign group has secured the support of Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron.

Welsh Government announces extra £1.5m for childcare and playwork sector

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Friday, September 24, 2021

| Nursery World

The Welsh Government has announced an extra £5.1 million of funding this financial year to help the childcare and playwork sector weather the impact of Covid-19.

Record number of SEND children with Education, Health and Care Plans

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Friday, May 13, 2022

| Nursery World

The number of children with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan has reached a record high of 473,255, reveals new Government data.

Ministers seek to attract more childminders by 'streamlining' Ofsted registration process

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Monday, July 4, 2022

| Nursery World

As part of plans to lower the cost of childcare for parents and increase provision, the Government consultation launched today, plans to make it easier to become a childminder.

Changes to free nursery milk scheme postponed

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

| Nursery World

Administrative changes to the nursery milk scheme, which were due to come in on 1 August, have been pushed back by the Government until next year.

Working parents need flexible, fully-funded 30-hour offer

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Monday, June 8, 2015

| Nursery World

The plan to double free childcare for working parents must be properly funded or risks making life more difficult for them, Citizens Advice says.

Voluntary sector shares grants of £25m

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Mental health charities that work with children have been singled out as beneficiaries of voluntary sector funding for the first time.

Savings from Tax-Free Childcare delay should be used to expand provision

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Friday, October 2, 2015

| Nursery World

The Family and Childcare Trust is calling on the Government to invest the £535 million savings from delayed Tax-Free Childcare as capital funding, so that local authorities and providers can offer more flexible places.

Link child benefit to take-up of free hours, says think-tank

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

A new think tank report calls for parents to be denied child benefit if they fail to take advantage of the free hours and enrol their children in early years settings.

Liberal Democrats pledge to triple pupil premium in early years

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The Liberal Democrats would raise the pupil premium for nursery-age children to £1,000 a year, under plans released as part of the party’s election manifesto.

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a £2m pilot to look at ways to support disadvantaged children during the school holidays by providing meals and activities.

Alliance blames lack of Government funding for closing fifth of settings

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has closed 23 nurseries since January, as a direct result of the longstanding Government under-funding of 15- and 30-hour childcare entitlements, Nursery World can reveal.

Additional school funding not enough to ‘repair the damage’, warn unions

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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Four in five schools will be worse off next year than they were in 2015, reveals new research.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

| Nursery World

Parents returning to work in the wake of the lockdown may struggle to find childcare places, as a new report reveals the impact of the pandemic on nurseries, pre-schools and childminders.

TUC calls for emergency bailout of childcare sector

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Friday, June 5, 2020

| Nursery World

The TUC is calling for an urgent ‘cash injection’ for the childcare sector, warning that without it there will not be enough places for working parents to return to their jobs, as the lockdown eases.

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.

Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre

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Friday, June 18, 2021

| Nursery World

The Duchess of Cambridge has set up an early childhood research centre with the ambition of changing the way society thinks about the first five years of a child’s life, and transforming the lives of future generations.

More than 240 organisations and sector leaders call for Government to urgently invest more in education catch-up

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

| Nursery World

A cross-sector coalition of education experts, charities, and businesses is calling on the Government to urgently reconsider its education recovery plans and provide more funding for children and young people.

NDNA launches study into nurseries’ sustainability

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Monday, July 19, 2021

| Nursery World

Nurseries in England, Scotland and Wales are being urged to take part in a survey into their sustainability.

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

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

| Nursery World

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.

Pupil premium extended to early years as tax-free childcare scheme expands

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government is to extend the Pupil Premium to disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds from 2015.

Exclusive: NDNA urges 30 hours rethink in wake of survey

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Monday, April 17, 2017

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association is calling on the Government to rethink its flagship 30-hours policy after a fifth of respondents to its annual survey said there is little or no chance they will be offering the extra free entitlement come September.

Pilot settings put conditions on 30 free hours offer

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Monday, September 5, 2016

| Nursery World

As the eight chosen areas begin to pilot the 30-hour free entitlement from this month, some settings are introducing new policies such as charges and limiting flexibility.

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30 hours childcare risks widening the gap in the early years

Government funding to expand work of FGM centre

Lib Dem leader gives backing to Champagne Nurseries campaign

Welsh Government announces extra £1.5m for childcare and playwork sector

Record number of SEND children with Education, Health and Care Plans

Ministers seek to attract more childminders by 'streamlining' Ofsted registration process

Changes to free nursery milk scheme postponed

Working parents need flexible, fully-funded 30-hour offer

Voluntary sector shares grants of £25m

Savings from Tax-Free Childcare delay should be used to expand provision

Link child benefit to take-up of free hours, says think-tank

Liberal Democrats pledge to triple pupil premium in early years

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

Alliance blames lack of Government funding for closing fifth of settings

Additional school funding not enough to ‘repair the damage’, warn unions

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

TUC calls for emergency bailout of childcare sector

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre

More than 240 organisations and sector leaders call for Government to urgently invest more in education catch-up

NDNA launches study into nurseries’ sustainability

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

Pupil premium extended to early years as tax-free childcare scheme expands

Exclusive: NDNA urges 30 hours rethink in wake of survey

Pilot settings put conditions on 30 free hours offer

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