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Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Following the announcements made in the Chancellor’s Autumn Spending Review, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of research agency Ceeda, examines how providers will be affected financially

Early years sector’s hopes and dreams for the year ahead

News

Monday, January 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, childcare providers and unions share their new year wishes.

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

News

Thursday, March 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The YouTube video has been launched by a group of nursery owners to campaign against the government’s policies on the free entitlement.

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

News

Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries and childminders in York have won their battle for more Government funding for the 30 hours’ childcare pilot.

Underestimate of eligible parents could cause 30-hour 'capacity crisis'

News

Friday, January 20, 2017

| Nursery World

New research claims the Government has underestimated the take-up of the 30-hours by more than 100,000 places, saying that as many as 500,000 parents could be eligible, rather than the 390,000 cited by the Government.

NDNA predicts impact of funding shake-up

News

Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The potential winners and losers in the Government's national funding formula shake-up are detailed in new data analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), provided exclusively to Nursery World.

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

News

Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

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.

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 businesses join forces against closures

News

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

| Nursery World

A new campaign has been launched by the Federation of Small Businesses to stem the closures of private nurseries

Coronavirus: Nearly half of childminders could stay closed for up to a year

News

Friday, March 27, 2020

| Nursery World

Fewer than half of childminders that have closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic plan to re-open within the next year, findings from a survey of childminders and childcare providers suggests.

Free places research: lessons to be learned

Opinion

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

| Nursery World

An independent review of childcare funding is needed to make sure the free offer works well, says Jill Rutter of the Family and Childcare Trust

Early years expert group's 12-point general election plan

News

Monday, July 14, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years experts are calling for a new dedicated early years framework for all children from birth to seven.

Social mobility plan promises £50m for school nursery places

News

Thursday, December 14, 2017

| Nursery World

A new Government plan to boost social mobility has pledged £50m to increase school-based nursery places and close the 'word gap'.

30 hours risks widening the gap with 'quantity over quality'

News

Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

The 30 hours childcare policy could widen the gap between poorer children and their better-off peers, and should be axed unless it is properly funded, a leading education charity says today.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

News

Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

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.