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Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

One in four early years workers are considering leaving the sector due to stress and mental health problems, a major survey has revealed.

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

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Friday, June 8, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has scrapped the School Direct route to Early Years Teacher Status because it isn’t popular enough, Nursery World has learned.

Row over call to lower childcare qualfication rules in Ireland

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Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

A campaign to relax the requirement for all childcare staff in Ireland to be qualified has been met with criticism from the sector.

30 hours: How nurseries are making ends meet

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Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery World has spoken to a number of nurseries, including groups and standalone settings, across the country to find out how they are making the 30 hours work.

Pre-school Learning Alliance to become the Early Years Alliance

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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance will be changing its name to the Early Years Alliance from next year as part of plans to re-brand.

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

| Nursery World

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coronavirus: Seventy nurseries signed up to bring potential lawsuit against insurance broker

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Thursday, July 14, 2022

| Nursery World

Law firm Fieldfisher is planning to push ahead with legal action on behalf of dozens of nurseries against insurance broker Pound Gates for recommending business interruption insurance policies that failed to pay out during the pandemic.

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Proposals to make childcare more affordable and increase the provision of out-of-school childcare in schools have been set out today.

Development of 5,000 two-year-olds tracked as part of Government-funded study

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Research interviews began last week with families taking part in one of the largest ever Government-funded studies into early years education.

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Following the announcements made in the Chancellor’s Autumn Spending Review, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of research agency Ceeda, examines how providers will be affected financially

Self-Evaluation Form scrapped in maintained sector

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

The Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) that providers are asked to complete prior to their Ofsted inspection has been scrapped for maintained schools and nurseries.

Support staff pay body's fate is still uncertain

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

The fate of the body responsible for negotiating the pay and conditions of nursery nurses and teaching assistants remains unclear after the Department for Education confirmed it was one of the quangos still under review.

Early years sector’s hopes and dreams for the year ahead

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Monday, January 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years organisations, childcare providers and unions share their new year wishes.

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The YouTube video has been launched by a group of nursery owners to campaign against the government’s policies on the free entitlement.

'Head count' costs nursery free entitlement funding

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

A nursery rated outstanding is fighting a loophole in its local free entitlement funding which left it 288 out of pocket.

Nursery chain threatens to pull out of free entitlement

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

A nursery chain offering more than 650 childcare places is considering pulling its nine nurseries out of the free entitlement scheme if underfunding continues.

Analysis: Rhetoric fails to match reality

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Changes to how the early years workforce can develop will impinge on the quality of provision available to young children, argues Pamela Calder.

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Stress and mental health problems taking their toll on early years staff

DfE scraps School Direct route to EYTS

Row over call to lower childcare qualfication rules in Ireland

30 hours: How nurseries are making ends meet

Pre-school Learning Alliance to become the Early Years Alliance

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

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

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

Trade union calls on Government to address early years workforce challenges

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

Sector accuses Government of misleading it over early years funding

Coronavirus: Seventy nurseries signed up to bring potential lawsuit against insurance broker

More Affordable Childcare: Plans for regulation shake-up for childcare set out

Development of 5,000 two-year-olds tracked as part of Government-funded study

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Self-Evaluation Form scrapped in maintained sector

Support staff pay body's fate is still uncertain

Early years sector’s hopes and dreams for the year ahead

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

'Head count' costs nursery free entitlement funding

Nursery chain threatens to pull out of free entitlement

Analysis: Rhetoric fails to match reality

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