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Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

Thursday, March 30, 2017

| Nursery World

An apprenticeship body has confirmed that Functional Skills will be accepted on the current early years apprenticeship framework.

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

News

Monday, March 27, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.

Nursery Management: Schools Forums - Team spirit

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

What are schools forums and why do they matter? With funding set to take on an extra dimension from September with the free entitlement extension to 30 hours, Charlotte Goddard investigates

Nursery Management: 30 Hours: Funding Rates - Number crunch

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

The way that councils are setting rates for 30 hours funding varies widely across the country. Jo Parkes assesses some big differences in approach

Pressure put on DfE to make childcare costs report public

News

Friday, November 11, 2016

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance says the DfE must now publish research on childcare delivery costs, following a ruling in the charity's favour from the Information Commissioner's Office.

Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’

News

Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Sector leaders are urging the Department for Education (DfE) to delay finalising its proposed funding reforms for early years apprenticeships in favour of a more ‘joined-up’ approach.

Funding formula online calculator launched

News

Friday, September 9, 2016

| Nursery World

A confusion-busting online calculator is helping settings work out what rates they may be getting when the new early years national funding formula is rolled out.

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Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The DfE is consulting on proposals to change the way it funds free childcare and early years education including a new national funding formula.

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

News

Friday, August 12, 2016

| Nursery World

Smaller settings wishing to employ apprentices will have to pay just 10 per cent of the costs of training them, the Government has announced today.

Cameron's life chances made a cross-party priority

News

Thursday, July 14, 2016

| Nursery World

Transforming children’s life chances was a heated topic for debate by a panel of MPs on the same day David Cameron handed the baton of his flagship policy to Theresa May.

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

News

Monday, July 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Brexit will undoubtedly have an impact in some form on early years, according to commentators.

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

News

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

| Nursery World

The sector has responded boldly to the Government’s review of the red tape burdening early years provision, amid fears of a ‘tipping point’.

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

News

Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

A nursery chain which has defended a ‘general extras’ charge as necessary to subsidise government-funded places has published a new policy to help get around the problem.

Early years free entitlement 'crisis' in spotlight

News

Friday, April 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Sector leaders have criticised the administration of the early years free entitlement during an inquiry considering the DfE’s £2.7 billion investment.

Public Accounts Committee to discuss free entitlement concerns

News

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years providers are being put off offering the free entitlement because of faults with the slow payment regime used by local authorities, a parliamentary committee has been told.

Town hall leaders flag academies' capacity concerns

News

Monday, April 18, 2016

| Nursery World

Schools may become disconnected from local need once they all become academies, local authority chiefs have warned, as more than half a million children receive their primary offers today (Monday).

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

News

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Research commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its review into the cost of expanding free childcare to 30 hours is not held by the DfE, Nursery World can reveal, despite being quoted 50 times in a key report.

Exclusive interview with Childcare Minister Sam Gyimah: France, funding and the 30 hours

News

Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

With the Childcare Bill for the 30 hours in the Commons and rising costs causing concern in early years, Ruth Thomson speaks to Sam Gyimah about what the sector can expect looking ahead.

Lords vote for independent funding review ahead of 30-hours roll-out

News

Thursday, October 15, 2015

| Nursery World

Peers have voted in favour of an amendment to the Childcare Bill requiring Government to carry out an independent review of funding before the free childcare entitlement is doubled.

Nursery Management exclusive: Childminding - Counting the cost

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

The impact of underfunding of the free entitlement for childminders has been revealed - with two thirds making a loss. Charlotte Goddard reports.

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Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

Nursery Management: Schools Forums - Team spirit

Nursery Management: 30 Hours: Funding Rates - Number crunch

Pressure put on DfE to make childcare costs report public

Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’

Funding formula online calculator launched

Early years funding

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

Cameron's life chances made a cross-party priority

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

Early years free entitlement 'crisis' in spotlight

Public Accounts Committee to discuss free entitlement concerns

Town hall leaders flag academies' capacity concerns

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Exclusive interview with Childcare Minister Sam Gyimah: France, funding and the 30 hours

Lords vote for independent funding review ahead of 30-hours roll-out

Nursery Management exclusive: Childminding - Counting the cost

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