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Spring Budget 2017: Tax-Free Childcare to start from April

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

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Tax-Free Childcare will start next month and be rolled out to all eligible parents by the end of the year, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his first Budget today.

Nursery Management: Two-Year-Olds - Loud and clear!

Features

Monday, March 24, 2014

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Now is the time for local authorities and providers to be taking a fresh look at how to communicate with eligible families. James Hempsall explains.

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

News

Thursday, August 11, 2016

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Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for consultation today.

Nursery Management: Brexit - The ‘B’ word

Features

Monday, March 18, 2019

| Nursery World

Are childcare providers planning for the UK’s exit from the European Union? And what impact is the uncertainty having on their business? By Katy Morton

NDNA launches its workforce surveys for Scotland and Wales

News

Friday, May 17, 2019

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Nurseries in Scotland and Wales are being urged to take part in the NDNA’s latest workforce surveys.

Nursery owner re-launches business rates petition

News

Monday, March 9, 2020

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A petition calling for business rates to be scrapped for childcare providers in England has been re-launched.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

News

Friday, May 12, 2017

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The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

Parents oppose 30 hour ‘extras’ charges

News

Monday, August 20, 2018

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Parents are increasingly unwilling to pay additional costs to take up the 30 hours offer, Nursery World has learned.

Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

News

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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Findings from a survey of providers, reveal that 89 per cent are likely to increase fees this year, while more than a third believe they will have to close their setting within the next year due to rising costs.

Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

News

Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has broadly welcomed the Budget announcement to boost the number of childminders by introducing start-up grants, however expressed disappointment over a lack of support for those currently in the profession.

Early years action group to stage protest in March

News

Monday, January 16, 2023

| Nursery World

A protest has been organised for the early years sector in London in two months' time.

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.

Worst employer excuses for not paying the minimum wage revealed

News

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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Only making the tea, not being British, and it doesn’t apply to me, are all reasons that employers have given for not paying the statutory minimum wage, the Government has revealed.

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

News

Friday, September 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Research into the pilot of childminder agencies has been published by the Department for Education.

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

News

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

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A new report finds the education system is ‘failing’ and calls for wide scale change including reform of Ofsted, increased early years funding and measures to ‘level the playing field’ between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Nurseries warn that the national living wage will push up fees

News

Thursday, December 10, 2015

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Nursery employers have ‘major concerns’ over the need to increase fees for parents in order to pay staff the National Living Wage, a report by Christie + Co reveals.

HMRC tells childminders to repay thousands in tax credits

News

Monday, January 25, 2016

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Childminders must now prove their business is being run to make a profit or could be forced to repay thousands of pounds in backdated tax credits.

Unpaid overtime props up sector

News

Monday, November 16, 2015

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Nurseries are relying on the ‘goodwill’ of staff to work unpaid overtime, according to a new survey by the education professionals’ union Voice.

The parent trap

Opinion

Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

We need a shift in the mindset of employers in the UK, so that flexible working is seen as the norm, not the exception, argues Sarah Jackson

PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey

News

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

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The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) wants to hear from early years and childcare professionals in England and Wales for its annual sector-wide survey.

Alliance blames lack of Government funding for closing fifth of settings

News

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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The Pre-school Learning Alliance has closed 23 nurseries since January, as a direct result of the longstanding Government under-funding of 15- and 30-hour childcare entitlements, Nursery World can reveal.

How the coronavirus reponse has unfolded so far

News

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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These are unprecedented times for early years settings on the front line, caring for children of NHS and care staff, supermarket workers, delivery drivers – all those key workers whom we all rely on every day.

Shadow early years minister to meet with sector to discuss coronavirus impact

News

Friday, April 17, 2020

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Shadow early years minister Tulip Siddiq is holding a virtual roundtable meeting next week with representatives from the early years and childcare sector to hear the challenges providers face in the Covid-19 crisis.

Coronavirus: Sector tries to stay positive with uncertain times ahead

News

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

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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

News

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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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.

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Spring Budget 2017: Tax-Free Childcare to start from April

Nursery Management: Two-Year-Olds - Loud and clear!

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

Nursery Management: Brexit - The ‘B’ word

NDNA launches its workforce surveys for Scotland and Wales

Nursery owner re-launches business rates petition

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

Parents oppose 30 hour ‘extras’ charges

Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

Early years action group to stage protest in March

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

Worst employer excuses for not paying the minimum wage revealed

DfE publishes childminder agency pilot evaluation

Year long inquiry into UK education calls for a 'significant boost' to early years funding

Nurseries warn that the national living wage will push up fees

HMRC tells childminders to repay thousands in tax credits

Unpaid overtime props up sector

The parent trap

PACEY launches annual sector-wide survey

Alliance blames lack of Government funding for closing fifth of settings

How the coronavirus reponse has unfolded so far

Shadow early years minister to meet with sector to discuss coronavirus impact

Coronavirus: Sector tries to stay positive with uncertain times ahead

Councils ignoring guidance to fund at pre-Covid levels

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