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Sector cautiously welcomes Labour's plans for school-based nurseries

Monday, June 10, 2024

| Nursery World

The sector has cautiously welcomed Labour's plans to convert classrooms into school-based nurseries, urging the party to consult with PVI providers so the sustainabilty of existing settings isn't threatened.

Labour reveals plans to convert 3,334 classrooms into school-based nurseries

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Monday, June 10, 2024

| Nursery World

A Labour Government would create 3,300 new school-based nurseries, utilising spare capacity within primary schools due to falling birth rates.

Lib Dems outline plans to develop an early years career strategy and review funding rates

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Monday, June 10, 2024

| Nursery World

Nursery staff would have to hold a relevant early years qualification or be working towards one, under plans from the Liberal Democrats.

PVI providers fear being ‘squeezed out of the sector’

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Monday, June 10, 2024

| Nursery World

Fears about providing high-quality early education and care against a backdrop of underfunding were raised by delegates at NDNA’s annual conference last week.

NDNA sets out vision for the next five years at 25th anniversary conference

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Friday, June 7, 2024

| Nursery World

National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) celebrates 25 years of ‘championing change for children’s futures’ at its annual conference in Coventry today (7 June).

Next Government urged to regulate and 'elevate' the status of nannies

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Thursday, June 6, 2024

| Nursery World

The next Government is being urged to regulate and elevate the status of the nanny industry within the sector, who are ‘time and time again not included or almost forgotten’ by politicians.

Lib Dems to boost statutory pay for new parents

News

Thursday, June 6, 2024

| Nursery World

Statutory maternity pay would be nearly doubled to £350 a week under a Liberal Democrat Government.

Figures show children in poorer areas have lower access to funded childcare

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

| Nursery World

Official statistics show that affluent areas in England have the highest number of childcare places available to families, highlighting that children in the most deprived parts of the country are less likely to have access to Government funded places.

Making Ends Meet Part 1: Balancing the books in the wake of the expanded offer

Features

Saturday, June 1, 2024

| Nursery World

In a new series, Leah Jones asks how settings are balancing the books as the first phase of the expanded offer, for twos, comes in

Documentary film night highlights childcare activism in the 1970s

Features

Saturday, June 1, 2024

| Nursery World

A recent retro film night and discussion on 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC was both inspiring and frustrating. How much has really changed? Karen Hart reports

Extended entitlement: MPs warn of workforce and funding challenges for early years sector

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

| Nursery World

The Department for Education faces ‘huge challenges’ in increasing the number of places to meet Government plans to extend childcare for working parents in England, MPs have warned.

LONG READ: Nurseries say some inspectors have a ‘conflict of interest’

News

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| Nursery World

Settings are flagging up cases where they claim to have been inspected by someone who runs a nearby nursery or has a history of managing ‘inadequate’ provision. By Katy Morton

Policy: Weighing the impact of 'free' childcare on disadvantaged children

Features

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

| Nursery World

The expanded entitlements could widen the inequality gap, finds Ivana La Valle, visiting scholar at the University of East London

Early years Alliance calls on next government to provide emergency funding for struggling settings

News

Friday, May 24, 2024

| Nursery World

The next government is being urged to provide an emergency financial rescue package for early years settings at risk of imminent closure due to financial pressures.

Question marks over full rollout of expanded offer as general election is called

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Thursday, May 23, 2024

| Nursery World

The expanded entitlement could be in jeopardy now that a general election has been called for 4 July.

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