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30 hours: local authorities to bid for capital funding

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

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Councils will be able to bid for capital grants to drive the Government’s expansion of the 30 hours entitlement.

DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

| Nursery World

The early years sector is cautiously welcoming an extra £50 million cash injection for expanding nursery capacity and offering 30-hour places.

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Representatives of the campaign to save Salford’s five local authority nurseries have been invited to meet children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi today (Wednesday 16 May).?

Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years

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Monday, September 17, 2018

| Nursery World

Investment in Sure Start has further declined with the Government spending just over £576 million on children's centres in 2017-18, compared with £1.8 billion in 2009-10.

Nursery schools twice as likely to be in deficit than schools

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

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New Government figures reveal in each of the last three years, the proportion of nursery schools in deficit has been double that of all schools.

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

| Nursery World

The DfE is looking for a national training partner to take on the next stage of the Early Years Professional Development Fund, the children’s minister told delegates at the Nursery World Business Summit.

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

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Monday, November 26, 2018

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Nearly nine in ten providers offering the 30 hours in Wales agree that the rate is viable, according to findings from research into the early implementer phase of the scheme.

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Nursery World

The education secretary Gillian Keegan has said that an extra 40,000 staff will be needed to deliver the full rollout of the expanded 30 hours.

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

| Nursery World

Sector leaders and experts have welcomed the Chancellor’s focus on childcare reform in the Budget, but warn the funding promised will not solve the current crisis, and there is no detail as yet on funding rates for providers of the expanded 30-hour offer.

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

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Monday, April 3, 2023

| Nursery World

The Food Foundation is calling on ministers to do more to raise awareness of the Healthy Start scheme and increase its value and eligibility, after it failed to meet the Government’s own target for take-up among low-income families.

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

| Nursery World

YMCA, the largest charity provider of childcare in the UK, is closing four nurseries at the end of the month, and warns more could close, as years of underfunding and rates for 2023-24 leave early years providers ‘buckling under the strain’.

Getting the funding rates right will 'make or break' nurseries

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Nurseries warn that the promised increase in funding rates from September ‘fall well short’ of what they need to survive after years of underfunding.

Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

| Nursery World

A total of 14 local authorities have been chosen as trailblazers of the Family Hubs programme to support 'fast-track' delivery of services that the Government said would benefit thousands of families.

Petition calls on Government to make VAT zero-rated for early years settings

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Friday, November 3, 2023

| Nursery World

An early years consultant has launched a petition calling on the Government to make VAT zero rated for early years settings and replace funding for places with a new ‘support grant’.

Labour says Chancellor's plans to expand childcare are 'in absolute tatters'

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Monday, March 4, 2024

| Nursery World

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has claimed that the Government is ‘on track’ with its plans to expand childcare for parents, in response to Labour claims that it has a dossier that shows that the Conservatives’ plans are ‘in absolute tatters’.

How 'A Better Start' areas support families and babies against backdrop of shortages to midwives and health visitors

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Friday, March 1, 2024

| Nursery World

A new report on maternity and antenatal support by the National Lottery Community Fund and the National Children’s Bureau highlights the challenges faced by the midwifery and health visiting workforce, and highlights partnership working in the five 'A Better Start' areas of England.

One in four childcare providers fear permanent closure amid virus lockdown

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

A quarter of early years settings are unlikely to be operating in 12 months’ time, as as the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic hits, a survey suggests.

Thousands sign petition against Government cut to furlough funding for nurseries

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Monday, April 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Thousands of childcare providers and parents have signed a petition calling for the Government to reinstate full furlough funding, after a previous commitment to pay early years staff under the coronavirus job retention scheme was watered down on Friday evening.

Coronavirus: One in five schools report ‘significant’ absences due to Covid-19

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Monday, October 5, 2020

| Nursery World

One in five schools across England are experiencing 'significant' pupil absences, with almost as many having sent a whole bubble home, according to a survey of teachers.

Councils have millions in unspent early years funding, investigation reveals

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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years settings in England are missing out on more than £55m in Government funding for childcare places, according to a Freedom of Information investigation by the National Day Nurseries Association.

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30 hours: local authorities to bid for capital funding

DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

Spending on Sure Start cut by two-thirds in nine years

Nursery schools twice as likely to be in deficit than schools

Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund

Providers in Wales find £4.50 rate for 30 hours commercially viable

Government admits an extra 40,000 staff are needed for 30 hours expansion

Budget 2023: Big funding questions hang over Chancellor's 'landmark' childcare reform pledge

Concern young children missing out on Healthy Start scheme, as figures show a quarter of households with under-fours skip meals

YMCA warns of nursery closures amid rising costs and below-inflation funding rates

Getting the funding rates right will 'make or break' nurseries

Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

Petition calls on Government to make VAT zero-rated for early years settings

Labour says Chancellor's plans to expand childcare are 'in absolute tatters'

How 'A Better Start' areas support families and babies against backdrop of shortages to midwives and health visitors

One in four childcare providers fear permanent closure amid virus lockdown

Thousands sign petition against Government cut to furlough funding for nurseries

Coronavirus: One in five schools report ‘significant’ absences due to Covid-19

Councils have millions in unspent early years funding, investigation reveals

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