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Childcare Commission - the Government wants your ideas

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

The Government is calling on early years and childcare providers, parents and others to put forward their ideas about how to make childcare more affordable and accessible.

Sure Start works better for parents than for children

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Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Sure Start local programmes have had more impact on parents than children, the latest findings from the national evaluation of Sure Start show.

Children's centres must sharpen focus on parenting to boost child development

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Parenting and improving parents' lives should be given as much focus as children's health and development, according to new guidance for children's centres.

Nursery scheme offers free school year for four-year-olds

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Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

A nursery group is offering all four-year-olds a completely free nursery place to match the hours of a school day, in a drive to keep children in an early years setting for longer.

Parents pay 6,000 a year for a nursery place in the capital

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Monday, July 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Parents in London pay more for childcare and are less able to rely on the support of grandparents than families in other parts of the country, according to research by the Daycare Trust.

Parents want to keep childminders in the Ofsted system

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Friday, June 22, 2012

| Nursery World

A Netmums and the National Childminding Association survey reveals that 97 per cent of parents want to keep current regulations in place rather than see the profession deregulated.

Sir Michael Wilshaw to head up review to close gap between rich and poor pupils

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Friday, June 15, 2012

| Nursery World

A major Ofsted inquiry will look at how schools in deprived areas can stop children from falling behind their better-off peers.

Northern Ireland scheme to make childcare at home easier for parents

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

| Nursery World

Social enterprise Employers For Childcare has launched a new service to take the administrative burden away from parents in Northern Ireland wanting to access approved childcare in the security of their own homes.

NCMA seeks parents views on deregulation

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

| Nursery World

The National Childminding Association has joined forces with Netmums to invite parents to back its campaign against the deregulation of childminders.

London providers call on Boris Johnson to tackle capital's childcare funding crisis

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Friday, May 25, 2012

| Nursery World

Parents in London are struggling to pay childcare fees, a survey by the Daycare Trust has found.

Union reveals cuts to children's centres

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centre staff in Windsor and Maidenhead could face losing their jobs as the council proposes to cut its Sure Start budget by more than 40 per cent.

Why regulatory reform will boost numbers and perception of childminders

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Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Despite the Government spending 7bn on childcare per year, British parents currently pay 27% of their income on childcare.

Busy Bees campaign to raise childcare vouchers to 75 a week

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Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

The employee benefits arm of the largest nursery group Busy Bees has launched a national campaign to increase childcare voucher allowances to support working parents.

Childminder inspection campaign takes off

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Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

More than 2,600 childminders have so far taken the National Childminding Association's campaign survey to keep childminders regulated and inspected as individuals under the EYFS.

Campaign to stop childminder deregulation

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

| Nursery World

In just under a week, 2,000 childminders have signed up to the National Childminding Association's campaign to keep childminders regulated and inspected as individuals under the EYFS.

Nurseries keen to offer places for two-year-olds, but worry about the cost

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Around two-thirds of nurseries want to offer places for disadvantaged two-year-olds, a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association suggests, but many have misgivings about whether the funding would cover their costs.

Parents fight to save children's centre nurseries

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Monday, April 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Two children's centre nurseries in the London borough of Southwark are set to close because the council says there is no longer a need for places.

Lowest-paid spend highest percentage of wages on childcare

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Friday, March 30, 2012

| Nursery World

Childcare costs account for more than a third of salaries in the UK, according to research, with clerical office workers among the worst hit.

Ofsted grades should not be only way of measuring quality

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Ofsted grades should not be used on their own by local authorities or parents when assessing the quality of childcare an early years setting provides.

'Earning less is better than not getting the business'

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Nursery World's facebook page was inundated with comments last week, as childcare providers debated the issue of increased financial pressure on parents' incomes, versus raising fees to cope with the rise in provider costs.

Childcare fees struggling to match costs

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Nurseries and childminders have been sharing their experiences following last week's publication of the Daycare Trust's annual childcare costs survey, which revealed the growing gap between parents' wages and childcare fees.

Pre-School Learning Alliance warns of debt danger in childcare loan plan

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Friday, February 10, 2012

| Nursery World

The early years and childcare organisation has slammed proposals put forward by a think-tank to allow working parents to borrow up to 10,000 to pay for childcare.

Childminders will have option to have contact details on Ofsted website

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Ofsted is writing to all childminders to ask whether they would like their contact details published on their website.

Funding scheme launched for parents campaigning against cuts to children's centres

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Friday, January 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Daycare Trust and Unison have joined forces to provide grants to support parents and staff campaigning to save their local Sure Start children's centres from closure.

Campaign calls for volunteers to help boost outdoor play in the community

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

A consortium of voluntary organisations led by Play England has been awarded 2m through the Government's Big Society Fund to re-launch a campaign to increase children's opportunities to play outside.