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Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

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

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.

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

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Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

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

Underestimate of eligible parents could cause 30-hour 'capacity crisis'

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Friday, January 20, 2017

| Nursery World

New research claims the Government has underestimated the take-up of the 30-hours by more than 100,000 places, saying that as many as 500,000 parents could be eligible, rather than the 390,000 cited by the Government.

NDNA predicts impact of funding shake-up

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Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The potential winners and losers in the Government's national funding formula shake-up are detailed in new data analysis by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA), provided exclusively to Nursery World.

Proposed SEND funds 'not enough', sector says

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Monday, October 3, 2016

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The sector has welcomed the Government’s recognition of the inequality of access to childcare for children with special educational needs and disabilities, but has questioned how far its proposed reforms will go.

'Learning together' trial open to 150 settings

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Friday, October 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Settings are invited to taking part in a £680k trial looking at the effects on children of boosting their parents' teaching skills and confidence.

HMRC details how Tax-Free Childcare scheme will work

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Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

More details of how the Tax-Free Childcare scheme will work in practice have been revealed to Nursery World by HMRC.

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

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Thursday, August 11, 2016

| Nursery World

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.

Chancellor extends parental leave to working grandparents

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Monday, October 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Grandparents who give up work to look after their grandchildren will be able to claim a weekly childcare allowance, under new plans set out by chancellor George Osborne.

Lords vote for independent funding review ahead of 30-hours roll-out

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

| Nursery World

Peers have voted in favour of an amendment to the Childcare Bill requiring Government to carry out an independent review of funding before the free childcare entitlement is doubled.

Nurseries warn 1,140 hour funding 'insufficient' to deliver high-quality care

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Responses from Scottish local authorities to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveal an average rate of £5.26 will be paid to providers to deliver the 1,140 hours from April.

PACEY launches #notababysitter campaign

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Friday, March 29, 2019

| Nursery World

PACEY has launched the next stage of a campaign to dispel myths about childminders and boost take-up of funded twos places.

Northamptonshire slashes early years funding

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

| Nursery World

Northamptonshire county council has gone ahead with its proposed cuts to funding supplements paid to providers.

Childcare providers urged to join with parents in fight for funding

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

| Nursery World

A parent campaigner is asking providers to take part in a survey into childcare funding and the impact of the recruitment crisis.

DfE awards funding for school nurseries and home-learning schemes

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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

| Nursery World

Sixty-six schools in disadvantaged areas will share £22m in funding to expand their nursery provision for two- to-four-year-olds.

Nursery businesses join forces against closures

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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

School funding allocations 'don't go far enough', warn unions

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Friday, October 11, 2019

| Nursery World

More details of the money schools and local authorities will receive in the next year are set to be confirmed by the Department for Education.

General Election 2019: 'The Conservatives would cost the sector the most if in power'

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

| Nursery World

New analysis by early years research company Ceeda has found that the party which promises the least in terms of early years entitlements in its general election manifesto, would cost the sector the most.

Budget 2020: Nurseries omitted from business rates holiday

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries have been omitted from the moratorium on business rates announced by the Chancellor in the Budget, which will apply to small retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.

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.

Around half of nurseries staying open for key worker families

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

| Nursery World

Around a half of nurseries in the UK are staying open for children of key workers and vulnerable children, a survey by the National Day Nurseries Association suggests.

IFS warns of cuts to school budgets amid rising costs

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

| Nursery World

Schools spending per pupil in 2024 will be 3 per cent lower than 2010 in real terms, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Scottish childcare settings in nearly half of local authorities don't know their new funding rate

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Thursday, August 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Nearly half of councils in Scotland have yet to make a decision on the hourly rates they will pay childcare providers from next week, reveals a FOI.

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Does the 30-hour funding stack up?

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

Nursery owners create 'Champagne nurseries, lemonade funding' video

York nurseries win rise to 30-hour childcare pilot funding

Underestimate of eligible parents could cause 30-hour 'capacity crisis'

NDNA predicts impact of funding shake-up

Proposed SEND funds 'not enough', sector says

'Learning together' trial open to 150 settings

HMRC details how Tax-Free Childcare scheme will work

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

Chancellor extends parental leave to working grandparents

Lords vote for independent funding review ahead of 30-hours roll-out

Nurseries warn 1,140 hour funding 'insufficient' to deliver high-quality care

PACEY launches #notababysitter campaign

Northamptonshire slashes early years funding

Childcare providers urged to join with parents in fight for funding

DfE awards funding for school nurseries and home-learning schemes

Nursery businesses join forces against closures

School funding allocations 'don't go far enough', warn unions

General Election 2019: 'The Conservatives would cost the sector the most if in power'

Budget 2020: Nurseries omitted from business rates holiday

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

Around half of nurseries staying open for key worker families

IFS warns of cuts to school budgets amid rising costs

Scottish childcare settings in nearly half of local authorities don't know their new funding rate

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