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

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.

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

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Monday, March 4, 2024

| Nursery World

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

| 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.

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

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.

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.

Nursery businesses join forces against closures

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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

| Nursery World

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

| Nursery World

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.

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.

Rise to national minimum wage threatens nurseries' survival

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

| Nursery World

A new report suggests that increases to minimum wage and national living wage rates will see childcare businesses failing and larger firms taking over.

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

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Friday, May 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The largest childcare member organisations have joined forces in an open letter to all political parties, urging them not to make manifesto pledges that the sector will be unable to deliver.

Parents oppose 30 hour ‘extras’ charges

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Monday, August 20, 2018

| Nursery World

Parents are increasingly unwilling to pay additional costs to take up the 30 hours offer, Nursery World has learned.

Fundraising appeal to develop care for all ages

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Monday, September 3, 2018

| Nursery World

Think-tank United for All Ages has set up a crowdfunding campaign to support the development of 500 intergenerational centres over the next five years.

Labour unveils 'radical' plans on childcare funding and workforce

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

| Nursery World

A Labour Government would increase provider funding to £7.35 an hour for free hours, introduce a national pay scale, and move towards a graduate-led workforce.

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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

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

Rise to national minimum wage threatens nurseries' survival

Childcare sector tells politicians: ‘No rash promises’

Parents oppose 30 hour ‘extras’ charges

Fundraising appeal to develop care for all ages

Labour unveils 'radical' plans on childcare funding and workforce

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