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Nurseries expected to stay open for key workers from Monday

Friday, March 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Nursery workers and teachers are on the list of key workers whose children will still be able to attend nursery or school during the coronavirus outbreak.

Nurseries not covered by insurance for coronavirus closures

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Philippe Fraser, director of London-based Bilingual Nurseries and Les Petites Etoiles, has raised concerns about the financial viability of childcare settings if they have to close to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus: London nursery group forks out £6,000 a week for Covid testing kits

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

| Nursery World

London’s largest nursery group is providing weekly lateral flow tests for its 700 staff, at a monthly cost of £23,584, because private and voluntary settings are not provided with home testing kits, unlike the maintained sector.

Coronavirus: Early years settings and schools no longer expected to carry out contact tracing

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Monday, July 19, 2021

| Nursery World

From today, early years settings and schools will no longer be responsible for contacting parents about positive cases in their child’s class or bubble, as contact tracing responsibility in education moves to NHS Test and Trace.

Progress stalled in achieving a degree-led workforce, figures suggest

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Friday, December 10, 2021

| Nursery World

New data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows the percentage of practitioners with degrees working in nurseries has risen marginally since the same research in 2019.

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

| Nursery World

Two more venues have been added for the early years sector's Ofsted Big Conversation weekend.

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.

Childcare minister hosts reception for the sector

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| Nursery World

Education and childcare minister Sam Gyimah invited guests from across the early years sector to a formal reception in London's Lancaster House yesterday.

BIG ISSUE: Early years capital funding cuts

Features

Thursday, September 30, 2010

| Nursery World

Extra £1.3bn for schools no long-term solution to funding crisis, say teachers

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have dismissed the £1.3 billion earmarked for schools by the education secretary as ‘smoke and mirrors’ and insufficient to make up losses.

EYFS REVIEW: Second consultation deadline is nearing

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Monday, January 9, 2012

| Nursery World

The early years sector has only until 19 January to respond to the Department for Education's second consultation on proposed changes to some of the learning and development requirements in the EYFS.

Work Matters: Policy Q&A - Health and Safety - Risk assessments could be simplified

Features

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries concerned about risk will be interested in new proposals over health and safety, say Tabitha Cave and Natalie Andrews.

250 Sure Start children's centres at risk of closure

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Around 250 children's centres are at risk of closing this year and up to a thousand have warned staff that they are at risk of redundancy, new research has found.

Cuts Watch: What's happening to children's centres around the country

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

| Nursery World

What's happening to children's centres around the country

Councils to publish what they spend on children's centres, children's minister confirms

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Local authorities will have to publish information about how much money they are spending on children's centres as part of the Government's policy vision for Sure Start.