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Wales puts 30 hour childcare on hold to pay for key worker children

Monday, April 6, 2020

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The Welsh Government is launching a coronavirus childcare assistance scheme to support Wales’ critical workers, and suspending the childcare offer for Wales for three months.

Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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Wage increases, uncertainty over local authority payments for funded hours and the return of business rates, amid other costs, dampen the funding announcement. By Catherine Gaunt

Settings warn their viability is at risk under 30 hours

News

Monday, September 4, 2017

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Close to two-fifths of childcare providers think the 30 hours policy could put them out of business.

Settings face cuts after council overspend

News

Monday, April 1, 2019

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Childcare providers in Northamptonshire may be forced to get rid of staff, resources or reduce their own salaries if the county council goes ahead with plans to cut early years funding from April.

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.

Early years research programme seeks settings to join panel

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Monday, May 22, 2017

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Research programme About Early Years (AEY), run by Ceeda, is calling on settings to sign up for its panel to contribute to data collection.

Apprenticeship levy needs 'radical rethink'

News

Thursday, April 28, 2016

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The apprenticeship levy, paid by large employers to fund an expansion of apprenticeships, needs a ‘radical rethink’, the CBI will warn today.

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

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Friday, August 12, 2016

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Smaller settings wishing to employ apprentices will have to pay just 10 per cent of the costs of training them, the Government has announced today.

Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding

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Friday, February 22, 2019

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Self-employed childcare providers could miss out on Universal Credit as a result of receiving early years entitlement funding, the Early Years Alliance has warned.

Nursery Management: National Living Wage - Pay slip

Features

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

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Many settings are wondering how they are going to afford the upcoming 5 per cent increase to the National Living Wage, let alone keep pay differentials to reward senior staff. So what are the options? Annette Rawstrone reports

Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’

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Monday, January 1, 0001

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Early years organisations have warned that the plans to increase the minimum wage to £10.50 an hour, announced by the Chancellor yesterday, will lead to more nursery closures.

Rise to Living Wage will be felt by Scottish nurseries, warns NDNA

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

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The NDNA says that Scottish nurseries, which must pay the Living Wage to deliver the country's funded hours, will be put under strain with the increase to the rate.

Government scraps early years expansion fund

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Thursday, January 4, 2018

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The early years investment fund, which was due to provide cheap money to enable settings to expand, has been quietly jettisoned, Nursery World has learned.

EXCLUSIVE: Busy Bees quits trailblazer group as 'process not employer-led'

News

Thursday, September 27, 2018

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Busy Bees has sensationally resigned from the chair of the early years trailblazer group after trying for 18 months to get the Level 3 apprenticeship standard released, Nursery World can reveal.

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

News

Thursday, November 15, 2018

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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

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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

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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.

Labour says Chancellor's plans to expand childcare are 'in absolute tatters'

News

Monday, March 4, 2024

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has claimed that the Government is ‘on track’ with its plans to expand childcare for parents, in response to Labour claims that it has a dossier that shows that the Conservatives’ plans are ‘in absolute tatters’.

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

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

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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.

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

News

Monday, December 14, 2015

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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

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

News

Thursday, March 31, 2016

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

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

News

Friday, May 27, 2016

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Nurseries and childminders in York have won their battle for more Government funding for the 30 hours’ childcare pilot.

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

News

Thursday, August 11, 2016

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Plans to change the way that childcare for three- and four-year-olds is funded to make the system fairer for all early years providers, wherever they are in the country, have been put out for consultation today.

Nursery businesses join forces against closures

News

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

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A new campaign has been launched by the Federation of Small Businesses to stem the closures of private nurseries

Coronavirus: Nearly half of childminders could stay closed for up to a year

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Friday, March 27, 2020

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Fewer than half of childminders that have closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic plan to re-open within the next year, findings from a survey of childminders and childcare providers suggests.

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Wales puts 30 hour childcare on hold to pay for key worker children

Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding

Settings warn their viability is at risk under 30 hours

Settings face cuts after council overspend

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

Early years research programme seeks settings to join panel

Apprenticeship levy needs 'radical rethink'

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding

Nursery Management: National Living Wage - Pay slip

Sector warns that proposed rise to national wage will ‘inflict significant damage’

Rise to Living Wage will be felt by Scottish nurseries, warns NDNA

Government scraps early years expansion fund

EXCLUSIVE: Busy Bees quits trailblazer group as 'process not employer-led'

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

Labour says Chancellor's plans to expand childcare are 'in absolute tatters'

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

Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

Early Years National Funding Formula: DfE plans major shake-up of early years funding

Nursery businesses join forces against closures

Coronavirus: Nearly half of childminders could stay closed for up to a year

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