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Minister sets out more details on funding rates for childcare reforms

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

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Children's minister Claire Couthino says that national average hourly funding rate for two-year-olds will rise to £8 this September and to £5.50 for three-to-four-year-olds. When the offer of 15 hours for children aged nine months and above is launched in September 2024, hourly funding is expected to be around £11 – with promises of ‘more to come’.

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

Thursday, March 16, 2023

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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.

Seven in ten nurseries would not change staff: child ratios for two-year-olds, Government consultation finds

Thursday, March 16, 2023

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Most respondents to the Department for Education's consultation on changes to staff: child ratios for two-year-olds are against the plans, which the Government says will start in September.

Budget 2023: Sector disappointed over lack of support for existing childminders as new entrants to receive start-up grant

Thursday, March 16, 2023

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The sector has broadly welcomed the Budget announcement to boost the number of childminders by introducing start-up grants, however expressed disappointment over a lack of support for those currently in the profession.

Budget 2023: Nurseries warn they 'need to see the sums' as Government plans major expansion in childcare for one- and two-year-olds

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

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Sector organisations have welcomed Treasury plans to increase funding for childcare by £4 billion, but experts have warned ‘the devil is in the detail’, amid nurseries closing due to the ongoing underfunding and recruitment crisis.

Budget 2023: Chancellor pledges ‘landmark childcare reform’

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has pledged to increase the availability of childcare and reduce costs for parents in what he called the 'most significant improvement for childcare provision in a decade.'

Nurseries in England face sharp rise in business rates from April

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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Nurseries are facing a 40 per cent rise in business rates from April, according to research from the National Day Nurseries Association, which is calling on the Chancellor to make nurseries exempt from paying them.

Government claims there are enough childcare places to meet demand branded ‘meaningless’

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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While the majority of councils claim they have sufficient early years places, less than one in six collect information on whether provision is meeting the needs of local families, reveals new research.

Chancellor reported to be planning childcare reforms and ratio changes

Monday, March 13, 2023

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Jeremy Hunt is expected to go ahead with plans to relax staff to child ratios, raise funding for childcare entitlements, and give nursery staff a sign-up bonus, according to reports ahead of Wednesday’s Budget.

Average nursery loses £32,000 a year by subsidising 15-hour childcare

Thursday, March 9, 2023

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Less than 2 per cent of nurseries say the Government funding they receive to provide universal childcare for three-and four-year-olds covers their delivery costs, according to a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association, which also found that closures have risen by 87 per cent.

Reform of the childcare system 'urgent' as childcare places become less available

Thursday, March 9, 2023

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There has been a ‘sharp drop’ in the number of available childcare places across England over the past year, with just half of local authorities reporting sufficiency of places for children under two.

Nursery World Business Summit: Labour reiterates breakfast club pledge, but promises wider childcare reforms

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

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Bridget Phillipson, shadow education secretary, said that a Labour Government would ‘fix’ the country’s ‘broken childcare system’, in a speech to delegates at Nursery World’s 9th Business Summit.

Chancellor urged to boost childcare funding by estimated shortfall

Friday, March 3, 2023

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A gender equality think tank is calling on the Chancellor to boost childcare funding by £1.7bn – the estimated shortfall – in the Spring Budget.

Petition calling for free school meals for all primary children to be delivered to 10 Downing Street

Thursday, March 2, 2023

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A petition of over 32,000 signatures calling for free school meals to be expanded is being delivered to Parliament by Barnardo’s and actress and ambassador Michelle Collins today (2 March).

PM told to 'prioritise' childcare and deliver more support for early education

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

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Nearly two out of three parents are reconsidering whether to have another child due to ‘spiralling’ childcare costs, finds new research.

Agency's ‘ineffective’ grade puts childminders on alert

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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Childminders in more than 100 local authority areas are being restricted or having funding for entitlement offers withheld after their agency's Ofsted inspection. By Katy Morton

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

Thursday, February 23, 2023

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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’.

Grandson of nursery group CEO to hold sponsored silence in aid of earthquake victims

Friday, February 17, 2023

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The nine-year-old grandson of the chief executive of a nursery group is holding a 24-hour sponsored silence to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

Wales invests £10m to extend roll out of funded two-year-old places

Thursday, February 16, 2023

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Over 2,000 two-year olds in disadvantaged areas across Wales are set to benefit from a £10m extension of the funded childcare programme.

Cost-of-living crisis: Childcare settings forced to increase fees and a third warning of closure

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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Findings from a survey of providers, reveal that 89 per cent are likely to increase fees this year, while more than a third believe they will have to close their setting within the next year due to rising costs.

Business organisation urges Government to invest and reform the childcare system

Friday, February 10, 2023

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The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling on the Chancellor to invest £8.9bn into the early years ahead of the Spring Budget next month (15 March).

Fourteen areas named as 'Trailblazer' Family Hubs

Thursday, February 9, 2023

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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.

Childminding agency rated 'ineffective' putting members' funding at risk

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

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A childminding agency has been rated ‘ineffective’ leaving local authorities considering withdrawing funding from hundreds of childminder members.

High staff turnover, business rates, and underfunding highlighted in APPG early years event

Friday, January 27, 2023

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In an online event to celebrate the sector during Childcare and Early Education Week, organised by the APPG for Childcare and Early Education, the group’s chair Steve Brine MP invited speakers to share their thoughts on the challenges facing the sector.

Early years action group to stage protest in March

Monday, January 16, 2023

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A protest has been organised for the early years sector in London in two months' time.

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