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Government-funded research shows rising costs for nurseries and childminders

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Friday, March 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Costs for early years providers have risen over the past three years, DfE-commissioned research has concluded.

Nursery schools granted £24m in stop-gap funding

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Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

Children’s minister Nadhim Zahawi will announce later today that the Department for Education will provide an extra £24 million for maintained nursery schools to plan for the 2019/20 school year.

Children's services in England face cash crisis, warn charities

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

| Nursery World

Funding for children’s services has fallen by nearly a third since 2010, according to a new analysis by a coalition of the 'big five' children's charities.

MPs blame Government's 30-hour childcare policy for 'entrenching inequality'

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Thursday, February 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government should review 30 hour childcare to address the ‘perverse consequences’ that are leading to a growing gap between disadvantaged children and their peers, MPs have said.

Childcare charity saved from closure

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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

| Nursery World

The future of a children’s charity has been secured thanks to a rescue plan to save the service.

Concern grows over fate of Salford council nurseries

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

| Nursery World

Campaigners in Salford have written to the mayor about ‘slow progress’ in deciding the future of the city’s five council-run nurseries.

Rise in children with SEN in PVI nurseries

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Friday, January 11, 2019

| Nursery World

The number of children in private and voluntary nurseries with special educational needs has risen dramatically, an analysis of Government figures shows.

Birmingham council nurseries to be handed over to PVI providers

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

| Nursery World

All 14 of Birmingham’s council-run nurseries are to be privatised.

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

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Monday, November 26, 2018

| Nursery World

Nearly nine in ten providers offering the 30 hours in Wales agree that the rate is viable, according to findings from research into the early implementer phase of the scheme.

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

| Nursery World

The DfE is looking for a national training partner to take on the next stage of the Early Years Professional Development Fund, the children’s minister told delegates at the Nursery World Business Summit.

Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

| Nursery World

The cost to private and voluntary nurseries of last month’s budget is £437m according to an analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association.

Call for national early intervention strategy

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

| Nursery World

MPs are calling for a new national early intervention strategy to tackle childhood adversity and trauma, and are calling on the Government to hold the long-delayed consultation on children's centres.

More than half of nurseries put up their fees last year

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Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

According to the Department for Education’s (DfE) Early Years and Childcare Providers’ survey, 53 per cent of nurseries increased their fees for at least one age group in the last 12 months.

Major inquiry into the sustainability of the childcare sector launches

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Friday, November 2, 2018

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs and peers are to carry out a formal, select committee style investigation into the opportunities and challenges facing childcare providers.

Nearly 9,000 childcare providers have closed since 2016

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Friday, November 2, 2018

| Nursery World

New Government figures reveal 8,800 childcare providers left the sector between 2016 and 2018.

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Government-funded research shows rising costs for nurseries and childminders

Nursery schools granted £24m in stop-gap funding

Children's services in England face cash crisis, warn charities

MPs blame Government's 30-hour childcare policy for 'entrenching inequality'

Childcare charity saved from closure

Concern grows over fate of Salford council nurseries

Rise in children with SEN in PVI nurseries

Birmingham council nurseries to be handed over to PVI providers

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds

Call for national early intervention strategy

More than half of nurseries put up their fees last year

Major inquiry into the sustainability of the childcare sector launches

Nearly 9,000 childcare providers have closed since 2016

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