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Government lobbied to keep vouchers to save on childcare costs

Monday, February 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Parents should continue to have the option of using childcare vouchers, say campaigners, who are calling on the Government to scrap plans to stop new users from being able to register for them.

Big issues: Follow the story

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Friday, January 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Do you want to keep up to speed on the Government’s 30-hour childcare policy and what it means for your setting?

New report calls for radical reform to create anti-poverty childcare system

News

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

| Nursery World

A simpler funding system, where parents pay for the cost of their childcare outside the free 15 hours on a sliding scale based on their income, has been proposed by the Family and Childcare Trust.

Nurseries and childminders gain right to ask to run school site provision

News

Monday, December 7, 2015

| Nursery World

Childcare providers will be able to ask schools if they can use their premises to run before and after-school and holiday childcare when they are not using them.

Minister confirms workforce strategy for next year

News

Friday, December 4, 2015

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed that there will be a workforce strategy established next year.

Tax-Free Childcare delayed until 2017

News

Thursday, July 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Tax-free childcare (TFC) has been delayed until early 2017, following a legal challenge from the childcare voucher provider companies.

Conservatives pledge to double free childcare hours

News

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

| Nursery World

A Conservative Government would increase free early education for three- and four-year-olds to 30 hours a week and boost hourly rates paid to providers.

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

News

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has launched a new parent campaign to highlight the cash value of early education places.

DfE parents' survey re-ignites fears over ratio changes

News

Monday, October 28, 2013

| Nursery World

A new Department for Education survey asking parents for their opinions on staff:child ratios has raised concern among the sector that there will be a renewed push for a relaxation.

Development of 5,000 two-year-olds tracked as part of Government-funded study

News

Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Research interviews began last week with families taking part in one of the largest ever Government-funded studies into early years education.

Most parents believe ratios in graduate-led settings are too high

News

Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

More than half of parents believe that nurseries should employ more staff to look after nursery age children, research by the Department for Education suggests.

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

News

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to make childcare more affordable and increase the provision of out-of-school childcare in schools have been set out today.

Management round table: Understanding Universal Credit

Features

Thursday, May 2, 2013

| Nursery World

The phasing of Universal Credit will have significant implications for the finances of families using nurseries and for nursery staff themselves.

Nursery group cuts fees

News

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

| Nursery World

The Old Station Nursery's Henley-on-Thames setting will reduce the cost of childcare from April, which could mean a saving for parents with a child on a part-time place of up to 2,730 a year.

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