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Bright Horizons acquires My Family Care

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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

| Nursery World

Bright Horizons has bought My Family Care, including the Tinies nanny franchises.

Take part in our free webinar about nursery security with Almas Industries – plus survey findings

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Monday, December 4, 2023

| Nursery World

Join Nursery World for our security seminar with Almas Industries on 18 January to find out what you can do to make your early years setting safe, and read on for the findings of our security and safeguarding survey which will underpin the discussion.

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.

New funding for nursery group RAFA Kidz, while Happy Days makes move into Wales

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Friday, May 26, 2023

| Nursery World

A nursery group which operates settings around RAF stations has been awarded more than £250,000 by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, on behalf of the MOD’s Armed Forces Families Fund.

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

| Nursery World

Community, which represents early years professionals, is launching its Early Years Charter, which sets out the 'key' workforce changes it would like the Government to implement.

Recruitment and retention crisis has increased the skills gap in the early years workforce

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

| Nursery World

The early years skills gap has increased by over 2 per cent in the last five years, putting ‘immense pressure' on setting managers’ workloads and stress levels’, according to new research.

Nursery group Storal secures private equity investment

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Monday, October 30, 2023

| Nursery World

Storal nursery group has secured investment to expand with a new private equity provider, and has bought a 123-place nursery in Manchester.

Nursery group Alpha Nurseries closes due to financial problems

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

| Nursery World

Alpha Nurseries, a group of more than 20 nurseries and out-of-school clubs, with a head office in Ipswich, has announced the immediate closure of all its settings.

Coronavirus: Nursery owners to discuss their experiences of reopening in a free digital conference

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Friday, June 12, 2020

| Nursery World

An online conference run by Famly, with Nursery World as media partner, will be broadcast on 16 June, two weeks on from the date that many settings in England reopened their doors.

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

| Nursery World

One in 8 childcare workers is paid less than £5 an hour and many are forced to take on second jobs to make ends meet, a report commissioned by the Government’s Social Mobility Commission has found.

Early years attendance drops, latest official figures show

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

| Nursery World

Less than a half (46 per cent) of early years settings were open at the end of July, according to the latest statistics from the Department for Education.

EXCLUSIVE: Nurseries consider legal action over rejected insurance claims

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries around the country are considering joining a class action against their insurer and broker over failure to pay out as a result of closure during the coronavirus crisis, Nursery World can reveal.

DfE brings in temporary change to early years funding to provide 'reassurance' to nurseries and childminders

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

| Nursery World

Childcare providers will receive funding based on actual attendance numbers during this year's summer and autumn terms, in a move designed to protect their funding, as children return to early years settings.

New outdoor nursery group launches in Scotland

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Monday, July 19, 2021

| Nursery World

An Edinburgh social enterprise has secured £725,000 in funding to launch a chain of outdoor nurseries.

UK's largest nursery group Busy Bees to open 357th setting

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Thursday, August 12, 2021

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Childcare will open its new nursery in Nottingham next month.

Nursery groups grow their businesses

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

| Nursery World

Derbyshire-based White House Nursery Group has bought its sixth setting, while Back to the Garden Childcare has started construction on its second site.

Old Station Nursery group adds five more settings

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Thursday, November 4, 2021

| Nursery World

The Old Station Nursery Group has bought My First Friends, a chain of five nurseries in the West Midlands.

Ofsted dismisses calls to temporarily suspend early years inspections due to Covid

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

| Nursery World

As Nursery World reported yesterday, the NDNA wrote to Ofsted calling for routine early years inspections to be put on hold because of ‘unsustainable’ levels of staff absences, however the inspectorate has now confirmed inspections will continue as normal.

Sector accuses Government of misleading it over early years funding

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years sector organisations have reacted with alarm to more details of funding for the next three financial years, which confirms that the extra money announced for early years entitlements in the autumn budget is £320m less than was stated at the time.

Fennies nursery group grows to 15 settings

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Friday, February 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Fennies, which operates across London, Surrey and Kent, has opened two new settings in the last couple of weeks.

Bright Horizons acquires Australian nursery group

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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

| Nursery World

Bright Horizons has expanded into Australia with the acquisition of a nursery group of 75 sites.

NDNA launches campaign to raise the profile of the early years sector

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

| Nursery World

A campaign to promote the sector and its dedicated workforce is being launched by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

Get your tickets to our Sustainability in the Early Years conference

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

| Nursery World

There's just less than a month to go until our conference on sustainability on 13 July where delegates will hear from a top line-up of presenters about how to adopt sustainable practice and provision.

The UK's top 10 largest nursery groups continue to expand

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

| Nursery World

Busy Bees Childcare, Grandir and ICP Education have all acquired more settings.

Kids Planet and Thrive Education continue to grow

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Friday, June 24, 2022

| Nursery World

The third largest nursery group in the country, Kids Planet, has bought Happy Days Lancashire, while Thrive Education has bought its third nursery in Chester.

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Bright Horizons acquires My Family Care

Take part in our free webinar about nursery security with Almas Industries – plus survey findings

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

New funding for nursery group RAFA Kidz, while Happy Days makes move into Wales

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

Recruitment and retention crisis has increased the skills gap in the early years workforce

Nursery group Storal secures private equity investment

Nursery group Alpha Nurseries closes due to financial problems

Coronavirus: Nursery owners to discuss their experiences of reopening in a free digital conference

Early years workforce: 'Forgotten key workers' driven out by low pay in increasingly volatile sector

Early years attendance drops, latest official figures show

EXCLUSIVE: Nurseries consider legal action over rejected insurance claims

DfE brings in temporary change to early years funding to provide 'reassurance' to nurseries and childminders

New outdoor nursery group launches in Scotland

UK's largest nursery group Busy Bees to open 357th setting

Nursery groups grow their businesses

Old Station Nursery group adds five more settings

Ofsted dismisses calls to temporarily suspend early years inspections due to Covid

Sector accuses Government of misleading it over early years funding

Fennies nursery group grows to 15 settings

Bright Horizons acquires Australian nursery group

NDNA launches campaign to raise the profile of the early years sector

Get your tickets to our Sustainability in the Early Years conference

The UK's top 10 largest nursery groups continue to expand

Kids Planet and Thrive Education continue to grow

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