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

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.

Consumer watchdog issues advice to nurseries over lockdown fees

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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

| Nursery World

Early years providers could be breaking the law if they ask for parents to pay full fees when lockdown measures are in place, the regulator has warned.

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.

Coronavirus guidance: a handy summary

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

A raft of guidance has been produced since the country went into lockdown. Here is a handy summary of key guidance and dates, with links to further, official, information:

All workers now entitled to a payslip

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

| Nursery World

A poll has found that 15 per cent of workers under 24 do not receive a payslip, ahead of a change to the law that means that all workers are now legally entitled to one.

High court rules that nurseries cannot benefit from same planning rights as schools

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

| Nursery World

Bright Horizons has lost its case in the high court to extend one of its settings after a judge ruled a nursery is not a ‘school’ and therefore does not benefit from the same planning rights.

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.

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.

Minimum wage rates to increase from 1 April

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Friday, March 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The national minimum wage rates are set to increase again from 1 April, rising to £7.83 an hour for the highest paid.

Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences

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Monday, April 17, 2017

| Nursery World

Childcare providers are challenging music licensing bodies which claim they must pay to play recorded music in their settings.

Nursery groups must report on gender pay gap

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Friday, April 7, 2017

| Nursery World

All employers with 250 or more employees will now be required by law to publish figures on the gender pay gap.

Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

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Friday, March 31, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s apprenticeships policies lack focus and will not close the skills gap because they fail to concentrate on the sectors and regions where training is most needed, an MPs' report warns.

Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

| Nursery World

An apprenticeship body has confirmed that Functional Skills will be accepted on the current early years apprenticeship framework.

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

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Monday, March 27, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy will worsen the North-South divide in training opportunities and jobs, a leading think-tank has warned.

Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training

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Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

All newly qualified Level 2 and 3 entrants to the early years workforce must have a paediatric first-aid (PFA) certificate within three months of starting work in order to be included in ratios.

Final apprenticeships funding rates: Cuts of up to a third overall

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Plans to slash funding for early years apprentices have been upheld by the Government, despite an outcry.

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

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Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurseries across the country have reacted with shock and anger to huge rises in business rates due to come into effect next April.

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to prove it. Hannah Crown speaks to a sector in crisis

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

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Friday, August 12, 2016

| Nursery World

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.

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

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Monday, July 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Brexit will undoubtedly have an impact in some form on early years, according to commentators.

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

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Friday, May 27, 2016

| Nursery World

A nursery chain which has defended a ‘general extras’ charge as necessary to subsidise government-funded places has published a new policy to help get around the problem.

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

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Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Research commissioned by the Department for Education as part of its review into the cost of expanding free childcare to 30 hours is not held by the DfE, Nursery World can reveal, despite being quoted 50 times in a key report.

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

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Friday, January 22, 2016

| Nursery World

4Children is supporting nurseries, schools and local authorities to open childminder agencies in a new push by the Department for Education to expand the scheme across England.

Last chance to take part in our survey into work-related health

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

| Nursery World

We know many people who work in nurseries experience physical problems: nearly 90 per cent of you reported experiencing back pain in a 2011 survey.

Ofsted statistics show drop in childcare providers and places

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Friday, October 25, 2013

| Nursery World

The number of childcare providers has fallen in the last six months, as has the number of places provided by childminders and nurseries.

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

Consumer watchdog issues advice to nurseries over lockdown fees

EXCLUSIVE: Nurseries consider legal action over rejected insurance claims

Coronavirus guidance: a handy summary

All workers now entitled to a payslip

High court rules that nurseries cannot benefit from same planning rights as schools

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

Labour unveils 'radical' plans on childcare funding and workforce

Minimum wage rates to increase from 1 April

Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences

Nursery groups must report on gender pay gap

Apprenticeship levy is a 'blunt instrument', MPs say

Functional Skills 'will be accepted' on current apprenticeship framework

New apprenticeships funding system 'will widen training and jobs gap'

Level 2 and 3 job-starters must have first-aid training

Final apprenticeships funding rates: Cuts of up to a third overall

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

DfE renews drive to set up childminder agencies

Last chance to take part in our survey into work-related health

Ofsted statistics show drop in childcare providers and places

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