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Working parents need flexible, fully-funded 30-hour offer

Monday, June 8, 2015

| Nursery World

The plan to double free childcare for working parents must be properly funded or risks making life more difficult for them, Citizens Advice says.

Lords call for redistribution of early years funding

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of peers is calling for fairer funding for PVI settings and for spending to be targeted at disadvantaged children who benefit the most.

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have delayed access to funded early years education, new research from the LSE suggests.

Funded early education hours not enough to 'narrow the gap'

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

| Nursery World

Parents with young children who work 20 hours a week or more should be entitled to up to 25 hours a week of free early education, a think tank has proposed.

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a £2m pilot to look at ways to support disadvantaged children during the school holidays by providing meals and activities.

£600m underspend as parents shun Tax-Free Childcare

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Monday, November 12, 2018

| Nursery World

Just a fraction of families eligible for Tax-Free Childcare are using it, Nursery World can reveal.

Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

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Friday, January 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Children living in the poorest areas are less likely to attend formal childcare settings and their parents are less aware of the free entitlement, according to new DfE statistics.

Coronavirus: First figures show 65,000 children going to early years settings

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Around 65,000 children are currently attending early years settings, according to Department for Education research – about four per cent of the number who usually attend in term time.

9 in 10 parents do not want children to go back to school as soon as lockdown ends

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Ninety per cent of parents do not want to see their children return to school immediately after the UK Government ends lockdown, according to a new survey.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

| Nursery World

Parents returning to work in the wake of the lockdown may struggle to find childcare places, as a new report reveals the impact of the pandemic on nurseries, pre-schools and childminders.

Call to scrap fines for children not returning to school next term

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Friday, July 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Parents and carers in England should be given more time to choose whether to send their children back to school for the new academic year without the risk of being fined by the Government, parenting and education charity, Parentkind has said.

Coronavirus: Small firms need nurseries to reopen to run their businesses

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

| Nursery World

The Federation of Small Businesses has backed the reopening of schools and nurseries after a survey revealed that over a quarter of its members rely these forms of childcare and education in order to operate.

Coronavirus: Children's minister sets out £4.4m fund to support children impacted by pandemic

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

| Nursery World

All those who have worked with children and young people throughout the pandemic are ‘amazing’ said children’s minister Vicky Ford as she outlined a multi-million pound package of support aimed at reaching ‘hidden’ children.

‘Start for Life’ support package to be launched for new parents

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

| Nursery World

Andrea Leadsom has launched the long-awaited Early Years Healthy Development Review, which sets out a vision for improving babies’ healthy development and reducing inequalities in the first 1,001 days of life.

Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre

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Friday, June 18, 2021

| Nursery World

The Duchess of Cambridge has set up an early childhood research centre with the ambition of changing the way society thinks about the first five years of a child’s life, and transforming the lives of future generations.

More than 240 organisations and sector leaders call for Government to urgently invest more in education catch-up

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

| Nursery World

A cross-sector coalition of education experts, charities, and businesses is calling on the Government to urgently reconsider its education recovery plans and provide more funding for children and young people.

Council 'failed' to follow school summer-born Government guidance, finds Ombudsman

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Friday, July 30, 2021

| Nursery World

Leeds City Council has agreed to review its decision making around summer-born children’s admission to school.

Pupil premium extended to early years as tax-free childcare scheme expands

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government is to extend the Pupil Premium to disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds from 2015.

Labour brands Government parenting classes ‘a failure’

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Friday, April 4, 2014

| Nursery World

Labour has accused the Government of wasting thousands of pounds on parenting classes after figures revealed that just 4 per cent of eligible parents in the pilot areas took part.

Cherie Blair calls for universal childcare

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Monday, October 21, 2013

| Nursery World

Cherie Blair is calling for a Government strategy towards universal pre-school childcare with the ultimate aim of childcare for all parents, whatever their background and the age of their children.

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Working parents need flexible, fully-funded 30-hour offer

Lords call for redistribution of early years funding

Children from higher-income families use pre-school for longer

Funded early education hours not enough to 'narrow the gap'

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

£600m underspend as parents shun Tax-Free Childcare

Parents in deprived areas less likely to use funded childcare

Coronavirus: First figures show 65,000 children going to early years settings

9 in 10 parents do not want children to go back to school as soon as lockdown ends

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

Call to scrap fines for children not returning to school next term

Coronavirus: Small firms need nurseries to reopen to run their businesses

Coronavirus: Children's minister sets out £4.4m fund to support children impacted by pandemic

‘Start for Life’ support package to be launched for new parents

Duchess of Cambridge launches early years research centre

More than 240 organisations and sector leaders call for Government to urgently invest more in education catch-up

Council 'failed' to follow school summer-born Government guidance, finds Ombudsman

Pupil premium extended to early years as tax-free childcare scheme expands

Labour brands Government parenting classes ‘a failure’

Cherie Blair calls for universal childcare

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