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Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

| Nursery World

Police and transport workers will be eligible for a loan up to £1,500 to pay for upfront childcare costs, which Sadiq Khan says are stopping mothers returning to work.

Sector fury over TV show's claims of free hours money grabbing

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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

| Nursery World

A TV programme has sparked outrage among the sector after its presenter claimed providers offering the funded hours are ‘running into the sunset with taxpayers’ cash’.

'30 hours at risk of not living up to parents' expectations'

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

| Nursery World

New research from the Family and Childcare Trust raises concerns over the availability and quality of childcare when the 30 hours starts in September.

30 hours: local authorities to bid for capital funding

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

| Nursery World

Councils will be able to bid for capital grants to drive the Government’s expansion of the 30 hours entitlement.

Leicestershire delays payment shift following backlash

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Monday, April 18, 2016

| Nursery World

A local authority is reviewing planned changes to early years funding following a backlash from childminders who fear they will have to stop offering the free entitlement.

Apprenticeship levy needs 'radical rethink'

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

| Nursery World

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

Families on National Living Wage crippled by childcare costs

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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

| Nursery World

Families with working parents on the National Living Wage do not enjoy a basic quality of life because of high childcare costs, a charity has warned.

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.

Labour pledges free school meals for primary children

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

| Nursery World

Labour will fund free school meals for all primary school pupils by charging VAT on private school fees.

DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

| Nursery World

The early years sector is cautiously welcoming an extra £50 million cash injection for expanding nursery capacity and offering 30-hour places.

Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding

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Friday, February 22, 2019

| Nursery World

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.

MPs call for funding rise of £3.1 bn for children's services

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Children’s services in England are ‘at breaking point’, MPs warn today.

Early years Welsh language scheme launches

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

| Nursery World

A new scheme to strengthen early years practitioners’ Welsh language skills has been launched by the National Centre for Learning Welsh.

T-level funding 'better' than for EYE courses

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Friday, June 21, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government will spend more than £10,000 on each childcare T- level in a bid to boost the numbers taking this new Level 3 programme.

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

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Monday, January 1, 0001

| Nursery World

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

| Nursery World

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.

PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities

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Thursday, December 7, 2017

| Nursery World

During Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) this week, Theresa May said nursery owners had told her that some local authorities are operating the 30 hours 'system' well, while others are not.

Government scraps early years expansion fund

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Thursday, January 4, 2018

| Nursery World

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.

Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Campaigners against cuts to children's centres will march on Downing Street to hand a letter to the Prime Minister demanding more funding to save early years services.

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Representatives of the campaign to save Salford’s five local authority nurseries have been invited to meet children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi today (Wednesday 16 May).?

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Mayor of London introduces childcare loans and urges employers to follow

Sector fury over TV show's claims of free hours money grabbing

'30 hours at risk of not living up to parents' expectations'

30 hours: local authorities to bid for capital funding

Leicestershire delays payment shift following backlash

Apprenticeship levy needs 'radical rethink'

Families on National Living Wage crippled by childcare costs

Apprenticeship funding: small groups to pay 10 per cent upfront

Labour pledges free school meals for primary children

DfE finds £50m more for 30 hours expansion

Warning over impact of Universal Credit on early years provider funding

MPs call for funding rise of £3.1 bn for children's services

Early years Welsh language scheme launches

T-level funding 'better' than for EYE courses

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

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

PM places the blame for problems with 30 hours on local authorities

Government scraps early years expansion fund

Campaigners to deliver letter to PM calling for more funding to save children's centres

Nursery campaigners to meet children's minister

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