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

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

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

Analysis: Early years settings step up support for families as cost of living crisis hits

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

| Nursery World

Vitamin Angels UK extends partnership with NDNA as nurseries increase food donations and other support to struggling families and members of staff. Catherine Gaunt reports

Scotland: Named person for every child policy splits opinion

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Monday, April 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Scotland’s Named Person scheme is planned to go national by September, but the policy has divided opinion, reports Charlotte Goddard

Proposed EYFS changes ‘not supported by evidence’

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Monday, September 16, 2019

| Nursery World

New research reveals there is little support among the sector or evidence for making extensive changes to the current Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.

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

Creative Learning - Allowing individuals to flourish

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Monday, August 11, 2014

| Nursery World

Creative thinking is hugely undervalued in our society - but we must learn to think beyond the status quo, says Philip Bujak, recently retired chief executive of the Montessori St Nicholas Charity.

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Childminders in more than 100 local authority areas are being restricted or having funding for entitlement offers withheld after their agency's Ofsted inspection. By Katy Morton

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.

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?

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.

Children's centres: Why are inspection grades suffering?

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Monday, January 12, 2015

| Nursery World

The latest Ofsted results for children's centres suggest that performance is poor in comparison to other types of childcare provision. Gabriella Jozwiak investigates the facts behind the figures.

Funded places for two-year-olds: Flaws, risks - and solutions

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Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

With the twos programme set to expand its offering this September, Dr Julian Grenier looks at some of the problems with the scheme and suggests how the Government might tackle them.

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.

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

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Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Measures of children’s progress – especially one-off assessments such as the baseline in Reception – are flawed, meaning neither policy-makers nor children benefit, say Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts-Holmes

Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

| Nursery World

With the pandemic having a disastrous impact on the funding of nursery schools, head teachers speak out about the urgent need for Government to find a solution. Disadvantaged families and children with SEND stand to lose most. By Catherine Gaunt

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

DfE publishes childminder agency plans

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

| Nursery World

The Government has been accused of ‘watering down childminder agencies’ with proposals to reduce the number of quality assurance visits and make practice support optional.

LONG READ: Nurseries say some inspectors have a ‘conflict of interest’

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| Nursery World

Settings are flagging up cases where they claim to have been inspected by someone who runs a nearby nursery or has a history of managing ‘inadequate’ provision. By Katy Morton

Rethinking early childhood services - Change from within

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

| Nursery World

The pandemic has highlighted further the challenges faced by the early years sector around diversity and equal opportunity for all – and the answer lies in anti-oppressive practice. By Dr Eunice Lumsden

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

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

Analysis: Early years settings step up support for families as cost of living crisis hits

Scotland: Named person for every child policy splits opinion

Proposed EYFS changes ‘not supported by evidence’

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Creative Learning - Allowing individuals to flourish

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

EXCLUSIVE In Focus: 30 hours: the hidden cost

Coronavirus: Sector tries to stay positive with uncertain times ahead

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

Children's centres: Why are inspection grades suffering?

Funded places for two-year-olds: Flaws, risks - and solutions

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

Assessment: Reducing children to numbers

Nursery school heads seek 'levelling-up' role as funding crisis worsens

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

DfE publishes childminder agency plans

LONG READ: Nurseries say some inspectors have a ‘conflict of interest’

Rethinking early childhood services - Change from within

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