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Nurseries expected to stay open for key workers from Monday

Friday, March 20, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

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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

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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.

250 Sure Start children's centres at risk of closure

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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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.

Cuts Watch: Hub and spoke plan for reduced centres

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Plans to cut 1.7m from children's centres in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham have been put out for consultation by the council.

Comedy explores the pre-school world

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

A playwright who owned her own nursery for 13 years has turned the stresses and strains of an Ofsted inspection into a comedy, where yoghurt is banned because of health and safety fears.

Nursery groups must report on gender pay gap

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Friday, April 7, 2017

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All employers with 250 or more employees will now be required by law to publish figures on the gender pay gap.

DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

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

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

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Monday, January 25, 2016

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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.

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

| Nursery World

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

Three London councils merge to cut costs

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

| Nursery World

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

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Nurseries expected to stay open for key workers from Monday

Nurseries not covered by insurance for coronavirus closures

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

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

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

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

Childcare minister hosts reception for the sector

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

EYFS REVIEW: Second consultation deadline is nearing

250 Sure Start children's centres at risk of closure

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

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

Cuts Watch: Hub and spoke plan for reduced centres

Comedy explores the pre-school world

Nursery groups must report on gender pay gap

DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion

Fees to rise as ‘living wage’ hits hard

Two HMRC nurseries given a temporary reprieve

Three London councils merge to cut costs

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