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MPs put pressure on Government to protect nursery schools

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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs is calling on the Government to safeguard the future of maintained nursery schools.

Nurseries in riot zones send children home

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

A London nursery had its windows broken and settings all over the UK were forced to close early when rioters ran amok, breaking into shops and setting cars and buildings on fire.

Children's centres to be brought under council control

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

| Nursery World

Doncaster council is to take over the running of all of the borough's children's centres because of fears over future funding.

Primaries dominate first batch of free schools

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Monday, September 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Seventeen of the 24 'free schools' which will welcome their first pupils this term are primary schools.

Parents working shifts struggle to find flexible childcare

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Parents working outside the typical nine to five in the capital face a struggle to find childcare to fit with their working day, new research reveals.

School provision plans see fresh wave of criticism

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Friday, September 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have renewed their call for the Government to abandon its drive for more schools to offer places for two-year-olds, in light of findings from the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual survey on the state of the early years sector.

Cost of childcare pushing parents out of work, research claims

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

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One in five parents paying for childcare are considering reducing their working hours or giving up work altogether due to the financial strain, a survey commissioned by 4Children reveals.

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries are considering fee rises of up to seven per cent to help pay for the new ‘living wage’, according to property expert Courteney Donaldson.

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

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Friday, January 22, 2016

| Nursery World

4Children is supporting nurseries, schools and local authorities to open childminder agencies in a new push by the Department for Education to expand the scheme across England.

Pupil Premium 'should go to rural areas too'

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

The Government's Pupil Premium for disadvantaged children should be used to help children in rural communities, a children's service campaigning group argues.

Future of state-run nursery schools ‘in doubt’ after Budget

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Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

More than 400 state-run nursery schools could ‘disappear at a stroke’ under the Government’s plan to turn all schools into academies, a leading early years specialist has warned.

Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

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Thursday, November 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The annual cost of providing childcare has risen by 20 per cent since last year, new Department for Education figures reveal.

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

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Two HMRC nurseries in Wales and Scotland threatened with closure could stay open for another three years.

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.

Three London councils merge to cut costs

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea councils are to merge services from February 2011, generating savings of between 50m and 100m a year.

School dinners 'not value for money'

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

| Nursery World

Three in ten teachers believe the price of meals in their school do not represent value for money, according to a new survey.

Childbase employee-ownership report gets ministerial backing

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

| Nursery World

Nursery group Childbase Partnership has received support from government ministers for its call for more employee ownership in UK businesses.

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

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Friday, November 30, 2012

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association has won ten contracts to support 62 local authorities in England with the rollout of free early education places for disadvantaged two-year-olds

One in five teachers has given food to hungry pupils, a survey suggests

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

| Nursery World

Large numbers of pupils in London are starting the day without breakfast, a survey claims.

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

| Nursery World

Children are missing out on vital speech and language therapy and starting school without the language skills they need, according to new research by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Falling occupancy levels and chronic underfunding threatens high-quality nursery provision

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Under-funding of free early education places and the tough economic climate are threatening sustainability of the nursery sector and the viability of the two-year-olds programme, the National Day Nurseries Association has warned.

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).?

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

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Monday, January 28, 2013

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Local authorities are set to lose their early years quality improvement role, as Ofsted becomes 'the sole arbiter of quality in the early years', in the Government's 'More Great Childcare' shake-up.

College nursery rescued from closure

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Friday, August 26, 2011

| Nursery World

A students' union is to take over the running of a campus nursery after leading a year-long campaign to save it.

Government considers parenting classes for all

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government has announced plans to trial the use of vouchers for parenting classes to mothers and fathers with children under the age of five.

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MPs put pressure on Government to protect nursery schools

Nurseries in riot zones send children home

Children's centres to be brought under council control

Primaries dominate first batch of free schools

Parents working shifts struggle to find flexible childcare

School provision plans see fresh wave of criticism

Cost of childcare pushing parents out of work, research claims

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

Pupil Premium 'should go to rural areas too'

Future of state-run nursery schools ‘in doubt’ after Budget

Further concern for sector as DfE survey shows increasing childcare delivery costs

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

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

Three London councils merge to cut costs

School dinners 'not value for money'

Childbase employee-ownership report gets ministerial backing

NDNA wins two-year-old support contracts

One in five teachers has given food to hungry pupils, a survey suggests

Speech and language therapy for children rationed due to budget cuts, finds survey

Falling occupancy levels and chronic underfunding threatens high-quality nursery provision

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

College nursery rescued from closure

Government considers parenting classes for all

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