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Kids Planet grows to 182 nurseries

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

The third largest nursery group in the country has acquired its first nurseries in Wales, along with five settings in Greater Manchester.

LONG READ: Extended hours in chaos as councils leave settings in dark on rates

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Most local authorities have yet to tell providers how much they will receive for funded places, raising doubts over how many settings will be able to offer the entitlements. By Katy Morton

Survey into early years providers' costs and staffing pressures

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years providers are being invited to take part in a survey analysing the impact of rising costs and funding challenges on the sector.

‘Complete chaos’ for parents trying to access the extended funding for two-year-olds

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Monday, January 15, 2024

| Nursery World

Thousands of parents are struggling to get their code to take up the extended hours and to find a setting that is offering funded places.

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

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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.

Tops Day Nurseries features game meat on the menu

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

| Nursery World

Tops nursery group has introduced wild meat to their menus to extend children’s taste buds and help protect diverse species in their natural environment.

Childcare provider secures six-figure funding package to buy third setting

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

| Nursery World

A childcare provider has saved a nursery from closure thanks to a six-figure funding package from HSBC.

Nursery groups Just Childcare and All About Children merge under ownership of Partou

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

| Nursery World

Two of the country’s largest nursery groups, owned by the largest Dutch nursery group Partou, are to merge under the Partou brand, making them one of the top five groups in the UK by size.

Nursery group Alpha Nurseries closes due to financial problems

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

| Nursery World

Alpha Nurseries, a group of more than 20 nurseries and out-of-school clubs, with a head office in Ipswich, has announced the immediate closure of all its settings.

Childbase staff to receive attendance award in extra paid leave

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Friday, December 15, 2023

| Nursery World

The Childbase Partnership is launching a scheme in January to reward employees for a perfect attendance record with up to ‘20 extra paid days off’ work a year.

Concerns childminders will cease to exist as DfE survey reveals a 5 per cent drop in childcare providers

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

| Nursery World

The latest DfE Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey shows the number of early years providers has fallen by 5 per cent in a year, mainly driven by a loss of 3,200 childminders.

DfE confirms extended 30 hours funding rates, but sector says they don't reflect the 'real delivery cost'

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

| Nursery World

The DfE has announced national average hourly funding rates of £11.22 for under-twos, £8.28 for two-year-olds and £5.88 for three and four-year-olds from April when the first phase of the extended offer comes in.