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Much still to clarify on funding plan

Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

First reactions to the consultation for the proposed Early Years National Funding Formula highlight the fact that a number of unanswered questions remain.

Plush new home mapped out for pre-school

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Monday, August 15, 2016

| Nursery World

Building is due to start on a multi-million pound school expansion which will provide brand new premises for a pre-school that has spent nearly 16 years in an outdoor cabin.

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

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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.

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

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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.

Nursery owners design ‘Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding’ cards

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Friday, May 13, 2016

| Nursery World

Thousands of individually-designed cards opposing the Government’s policies on the free entitlement will be mailed out by campaigning nurseries on National Children’s Day.

Early Years Pupil Premium: Part 8 - Quality premium

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Monday, May 2, 2016

| Nursery World

EYPP interventions depend on quality interactions for maximum impact – and settings taking a holistic approach are training staff in shared thinking and language skills, Charlotte Goddard reports

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

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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.

Poorer children could miss out on free childcare places, NAO warns

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

| Nursery World

Failure to get the funding right for the 30-hour childcare policy could lead to cuts to places for disadvantaged two-year-olds, the Government’s independent spending watchdog claims today.

Majority of nurseries may not offer 30-hour childcare

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

| Nursery World

The Government’s plans to double free childcare for parents of three- and four-year-olds could come to a grinding halt as fewer than half of the country’s nurseries say they are likely to offer the places.

Paying nursery staff just £1.45 an hour more could boost poor quality to outstanding

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

| Nursery World

The link between staff pay and a nursery's Ofsted grade is exposed in a new report by the Family and Childcare Trust.

New report calls for radical reform to create anti-poverty childcare system

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

| Nursery World

A simpler funding system, where parents pay for the cost of their childcare outside the free 15 hours on a sliding scale based on their income, has been proposed by the Family and Childcare Trust.

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

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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

Spending Review: Chancellor reveals more details of 30-hour childcare

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Parents will need to work 16 hours a week to be eligible for 30 hours of free childcare from 2017, the Chancellor has confirmed.

Budget cuts result in fewer hours and reduced services at children’s centres

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Monday, November 2, 2015

| Nursery World

Children’s centres are having to reduce their opening hours and scale back or charge for services because of cuts to their budgets.

Nursery Management exclusive: Childminding - Counting the cost

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

The impact of underfunding of the free entitlement for childminders has been revealed - with two thirds making a loss. Charlotte Goddard reports.

Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

| Nursery World

New guidance to help early years settings calculate the real cost of providing funded childcare places is now available.

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

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Friday, March 27, 2015

| Nursery World

More details of how early years providers can apply for grants of up to £50,000 in social investment funding have been released.

EYFS Best Practice: An essential guide to ... spending the EYPP

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Monday, March 23, 2015

| Nursery World

When the Early Years Pupil Premium comes in this April, it will be up to providers how they channel the funding. Charlotte Goddard looks at what settings should be thinking about

Early Years Pupil Premium: Can nurseries make the EYPP work?

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Monday, February 9, 2015

| Nursery World

The early years pupil premium comes into effect this April. But while the extra funding is welcome, the initiative looks likely to present some challenges for settings, as Charlotte Goddard explains.

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

| Nursery World

Sixty teaching schools will share £5m of Government funding in partnerships with local nurseries.

Nurseries face 'chronic' under-funding

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Nurseries are losing £800 per child per year on funded places for three-and four-year-olds, according to the annual survey from the National Day Nurseries Association.

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The Government has launched a new parent campaign to highlight the cash value of early education places.

Sam Gyimah to face questions about under-funding from House of Lords committee

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The Select Committee on Affordable Childcare is to question the childcare minister on the underfunding of the free entitlement.

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.

Nursery group subsidising free places in Scottish settings

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| Nursery World

Bertram has revealed it is subsidising places for three and four-year-old at its Glasgow settings because of a cap on its funded places.

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Much still to clarify on funding plan

Plush new home mapped out for pre-school

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

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

Nursery owners design ‘Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding’ cards

Early Years Pupil Premium: Part 8 - Quality premium

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

Poorer children could miss out on free childcare places, NAO warns

Majority of nurseries may not offer 30-hour childcare

Paying nursery staff just £1.45 an hour more could boost poor quality to outstanding

New report calls for radical reform to create anti-poverty childcare system

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Spending Review: Chancellor reveals more details of 30-hour childcare

Budget cuts result in fewer hours and reduced services at children’s centres

Nursery Management exclusive: Childminding - Counting the cost

Alliance publishes free guides to help nurseries contribute to the funding review

Applications open for childcare social investment fund

EYFS Best Practice: An essential guide to ... spending the EYPP

Early Years Pupil Premium: Can nurseries make the EYPP work?

Teaching schools awarded £5m to boost early years provision

Nurseries face 'chronic' under-funding

Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

Sam Gyimah to face questions about under-funding from House of Lords committee

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

Nursery group subsidising free places in Scottish settings

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