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Nurseries' resilience 'wearing increasingly thin' warns Christie & Co in business outlook for 2024

Friday, January 12, 2024

| Nursery World

Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co is predicting more consolidation among nursery operators and a continued loss of capacity as a result of smaller settings closing, in market predictions for the year ahead.

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector organisations have welcomed Treasury plans to increase funding for childcare by £4 billion, but experts have warned ‘the devil is in the detail’, amid nurseries closing due to the ongoing underfunding and recruitment crisis.

Number of early years providers fallen by 10 per cent over four years

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

| Nursery World

New DfE statistics reveal between 2018 and 2022, that the number of early years providers has fallen by 10 per cent.

Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

| Nursery World

Business property adviser Christie & Co has published its first report on global workforce trends in early childhood education and care (ECEC).

Innovative software allows families to book childcare by the hour

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Monday, February 10, 2020

| Nursery World

A new early learning and childcare management system which aims to bring greater flexibility to parents and practitioners has been launched.

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.

Change to test and trace and self-isolation rules causes 'utter confusion' in nurseries

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years settings and schools have been thrown into confusion following the Government's change to the rules on tracking coronavirus cases and self-isolation, as the number of Covid-related absences among children and staff continues to rise.

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

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years settings have questioned the Government’s decision to scrap twice-weekly testing in early years settings and have raised concerns about plans to end self-isolation for positive Covid cases.

Nursery group and childcare training company join club to address chronic skills shortages

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Friday, April 8, 2022

| Nursery World

Tops Day Nurseries and Aspire Training Team have joined The 5% Club – an employer led charity whose goal is to increase the employment and career aspects of young people and equip the UK with the skilled workforce it needs.

Increasing the minimum wage to £15 an hour would be 'disastrous' for the sector

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years organisations believe if the minimum wage was increased to £15 per hour, as per the TUC's call, it would be 'impossible' for childcare settings to remain open.

New specialist business hub launched for early years providers

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

| Nursery World

Early childhood platform Famly has launched a new hub of articles, videos and webinars providing specialist business advice for the sector.

Think tank puts forward ideas to fix the UK's 'broken' childcare system

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Friday, December 2, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report calls for the UK’s ‘broken childcare’ system to be fixed, providing recommendations to tackle its ‘complexity, inflexibility’ and the ‘dysfunctional provider market’.

N Family Club launches new shareholder scheme

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Monday, October 17, 2022

| Nursery World

N Family Club has introduced a new partnership share scheme for its nursery managers and leaders.

DfE figures show 4,000 early years providers have closed in the last two years

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

| Nursery World

There has been a loss of around 4,000 early years providers in the last two years, resulting in 7,300 fewer childcare places, according to new data from the Department for Education (DfE).

Teaching union wishes Ofsted an ‘unhappy birthday’ and renews calls for it to be replaced

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Friday, May 6, 2022

| Nursery World

As Ofsted turns 30 years old today (6 May), National Education Union members (NEU) are marking the occasion by delivering giant ‘unhappy’ birthday cards to the inspectorate’s seven regional offices.

Low pay forces early years workers to quit jobs they love

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

| Nursery World

Early years workers should be paid the same as primary teachers, according to new research, which says that thousands of professionals in the sector are being driven out by low pay and lack of recognition.

Government makes U-turn on nurseries' access to furlough cash

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Friday, April 17, 2020

| Nursery World

The Government has backtracked on the amount of financial support that early years providers can access from ‘free entitlement’ funding and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furloughing) in a move described as ‘a kick in the teeth’.

New project to track Covid-19 impact on early years sector

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

| Nursery World

The immediate and lasting impact of the coronavirus on the early years sector is being gauged by a new research project, launched today by About Early Years (Ceeda).

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

Updated furlough guidance gives flexibility for nurseries to rotate staff

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Nursery workers that have been put on temporary leave by their employer during the coronavirus crisis can be furloughed more than once, according to updated guidance.

Covid forces the permanent closure of two nurseries

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Monday, February 14, 2022

| Nursery World

A setting operated by Storal Learning has shut down due to a lack of staff and inability to recruit, exacerbated by the pandemic, while another nursery run by an education trust is to close because it is no longer financially viable.

Ofsted - Children continue to be behind developmentally due to Covid

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

| Nursery World

Children’s language development, social interaction and gross motor skills continue to be impacted by the pandemic, according to new research from the inspectorate.

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

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Friday, August 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report looking at ways to reform childcare recommends staff: child ratios be relaxed further than the proposed 1:5 in 'good' and 'outstanding' nurseries and suggests childminder agencies take on a larger role within the sector.

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.

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Nurseries' resilience 'wearing increasingly thin' warns Christie & Co in business outlook for 2024

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

Number of early years providers fallen by 10 per cent over four years

Study reveals trends in global ECEC workforce

Innovative software allows families to book childcare by the hour

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

Change to test and trace and self-isolation rules causes 'utter confusion' in nurseries

A mixed picture post-furlough amid worker shortages

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

Nursery group and childcare training company join club to address chronic skills shortages

Increasing the minimum wage to £15 an hour would be 'disastrous' for the sector

New specialist business hub launched for early years providers

Think tank puts forward ideas to fix the UK's 'broken' childcare system

N Family Club launches new shareholder scheme

DfE figures show 4,000 early years providers have closed in the last two years

Teaching union wishes Ofsted an ‘unhappy birthday’ and renews calls for it to be replaced

Low pay forces early years workers to quit jobs they love

Government makes U-turn on nurseries' access to furlough cash

New project to track Covid-19 impact on early years sector

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

Updated furlough guidance gives flexibility for nurseries to rotate staff

Covid forces the permanent closure of two nurseries

Ofsted - Children continue to be behind developmentally due to Covid

Report suggests relaxing ratios and giving childminder agencies greater powers will ease childcare costs

Poor areas hit hardest by rising nursery closures

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