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North-west nursery group adds three more settings

News

Friday, July 31, 2020

| Nursery World

The Village Nursery Group has recently acquired three settings bringing the total owned up to nine nurseries.

Survey to look at impact of furlough on childcare providers

News

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

| Nursery World

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) and the Education Policy Institute (EPI) are launching the second survey in their year-long research project, looking at the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the early years workforce.

Councils 'can transfer funding between settings' - new DfE guidance

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

| Nursery World

Councils are being encouraged to transfer early entitlement funding between early years settings if it helps them to create enough childcare places for key worker children.

Coronavirus: Concern early years sector won't be able to cope with demand for places after lockdown

News

Friday, March 26, 2021

| Nursery World

With new findings revealing settings have been heavily reliant on the furlough scheme, there are fears nurseries would struggle with a sudden rise in demand for places.

Coronavirus: Nursery staff not exempt from self-isolation

News

Friday, July 23, 2021

| Nursery World

The sector has expressed its anger at the omission of early years from the Government’s list of critical workers who can avoid self-isolation if they are ‘pinged’ by the NHS Covid app.

September early years funding will be based on pre-Covid occupancy to protect the sector

News

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

| Nursery World

Local authorities will receive early years funding for the autumn term on the basis of how many children were attending settings before the coronavirus pandemic hit.

UK nursery market 'slower to recover' from pandemic than other EU countries

News

Sunday, December 13, 2020

| Nursery World

Countries whose governments subsidise a higher proportion of childcare than the UK are doing better boosting occupancy to pre-lockdown occupancy levels, a panel of experts heard this week.

Nursery group opens 24-hour centres for keyworkers in coronavirus crisis

News

Monday, April 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Rosedene Nurseries, which operates 12 settings in the north east, has opened four 24-hour childcare centres for the children of designated key workers during the coronavirus crisis.

Coronavirus guidance: a handy summary

News

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:

Coronavirus: Group of major providers calls for delayed school start for young children

News

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

The Covid-19 response group, formed by more than 70 childcare groups and the sector membership organisations, has called on the Government to allow children to delay starting Reception until January or April 2021 and to stay at their early years settings instead.

Early years settings divided on readiness to reopen for more children

News

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

| Nursery World

With early years settings and schools expected to reopen to more children from 1 June, the sector is split between those who say they are ready and those who are worried that they cannot guarantee the safety of children and staff amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus: Nurseries not covered for 'notifiable diseases'

News

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

| Nursery World

The Government has today formally registered Covid-19 as a ‘notifiable disease’, but nurseries are still unlikely to be covered by insurance for closures.

Coronavirus - Staying open

Features

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

| Nursery World

Many settings are remaining open throughout the pandemic. How should operations change? Melanie Pilcher, quality and standards manager for the Early Years Alliance, has a guide

Early years sector and parents divided on reopening settings

News

Monday, June 1, 2020

| Nursery World

Nurseries and childminders in England are fighting to survive, as new research suggests that just over four in 10 parents of under-fives are planning to return today, with many providers also uncertain about when to reopen.

Consumer watchdog issues advice to nurseries over lockdown fees

News

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.

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

News

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

While recruiting Level 3-qualified staff has been an issue for several years, settings have told Nursery World that the situation is now so dire they fear they will be forced to turn families away because of staff shortages.

Change to test and trace and self-isolation rules causes 'utter confusion' in nurseries

News

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years settings and schools have been thrown into confusion following the Government's change to the rules on tracking coronavirus cases and self-isolation, as the number of Covid-related absences among children and staff continues to rise.

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years settings have questioned the Government’s decision to scrap twice-weekly testing in early years settings and have raised concerns about plans to end self-isolation for positive Covid cases.

From Cinderella to the 4th Emergency Service

Opinion

Friday, March 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Who would have anticipated that a virus we had never heard of could be the last straw to the survival of the early years sector, already weakened by years of under-funding? June O' Sullivan, CEO of nursery group LEYF, on coronavirus challenges

Thousands of new childminders at risk of closure without Government support

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

| Nursery World

Newly registered childminders around the country feel they are missing out on vital Government support for the self-employed, and fear their businesses will fold in the crisis.

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North-west nursery group adds three more settings

Survey to look at impact of furlough on childcare providers

Councils 'can transfer funding between settings' - new DfE guidance

Coronavirus: Concern early years sector won't be able to cope with demand for places after lockdown

Coronavirus: Nursery staff not exempt from self-isolation

September early years funding will be based on pre-Covid occupancy to protect the sector

UK nursery market 'slower to recover' from pandemic than other EU countries

Nursery group opens 24-hour centres for keyworkers in coronavirus crisis

Coronavirus guidance: a handy summary

Coronavirus: Group of major providers calls for delayed school start for young children

Early years settings divided on readiness to reopen for more children

Coronavirus: Nurseries not covered for 'notifiable diseases'

Coronavirus - Staying open

Early years sector and parents divided on reopening settings

Consumer watchdog issues advice to nurseries over lockdown fees

Parents 'will be turned away' due to Level 3 staffing crisis

Change to test and trace and self-isolation rules causes 'utter confusion' in nurseries

Change to Covid rules on testing and isolation provokes mixed response among nurseries and childminders

From Cinderella to the 4th Emergency Service

Thousands of new childminders at risk of closure without Government support

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