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DfE consults on improving Functional Skills qualifications

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking views on proposed subject content for reformed Functional Skills qualifications in English and mathematics.

Level 3 apprenticeship consultation is ‘flawed’

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Monday, May 15, 2017

| Nursery World

The consultation on a new apprenticeship standard is ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘bordering on a joke’, sector leaders have said.

Tax-Free Childcare goes live

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Monday, April 24, 2017

| Nursery World

From today, working parents of children under four can start using Tax-Free Childcare, as well as sign up ahead of the 30-hour September roll-out.

British Sign Language wins GCSE equivalent status for early years apprenticeships

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Thursday, April 20, 2017

| Nursery World

British Sign Language (BSL) is to be included as an alternative to GCSE English in early years apprenticeships from 24 April, after years of lobbying from equalities campaigners.

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 comes into force

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

| Nursery World

The apprenticeship levy comes into force today, at a time of unprecedented uncertainty over apprenticeships in the early years sector.

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.

Revised EYFS updates Level 3 and first aid rules

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Friday, March 3, 2017

| Nursery World

The DfE has published the revised Early Years Foundation Stage framework to incorporate the new Level 3 qualification requirements and first aid regulations.

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

| Nursery World

The new apprenticeship funding system could result in lower wages for employees, a think tank has claimed.

Apprentice funding cuts ‘hit poor’

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Monday, October 31, 2016

| Nursery World

The young poor are bearing the brunt of apprenticeship funding cuts, early years training providers have warned.

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.

Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Sector leaders are urging the Department for Education (DfE) to delay finalising its proposed funding reforms for early years apprenticeships in favour of a more ‘joined-up’ approach.

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

Funding formula online calculator launched

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Friday, September 9, 2016

| Nursery World

A confusion-busting online calculator is helping settings work out what rates they may be getting when the new early years national funding formula is rolled out.

Brexit - No going back

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Monday, August 22, 2016

| Nursery World

The legislative disentanglement involved in the Brexit vote will keep lawmakers busy for years to come. Its implications for the early years sector are set out here by Phil Richardson, head of employment law at Stephensons Solicitors

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.

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

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Friday, July 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Sam Gyimah has promised a review of the GCSE requirements at Level 3.

Serious case reviews to be axed in child protection shakeup

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

| Nursery World

Serious case reviews are to be scrapped, the government has announced.

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.

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

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Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously outstanding nursery has been downgraded to inadequate after staff photographed children on their mobiles and sent the pictures to parents.

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DfE consults on improving Functional Skills qualifications

Level 3 apprenticeship consultation is ‘flawed’

Tax-Free Childcare goes live

British Sign Language wins GCSE equivalent status for early years apprenticeships

Confusion as settings ‘hounded’ to pay for music licences

Nursery groups must report on gender pay gap

Apprenticeship levy comes into force

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

Revised EYFS updates Level 3 and first aid rules

Apprenticeship levy could lower wages, finds think tank

Apprentice funding cuts ‘hit poor’

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

Funding reforms ‘will result in fewer EY apprentices’

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

Funding formula online calculator launched

Brexit - No going back

How will early years be affected by Brexit?

GCSE requirements to be reviewed

Serious case reviews to be axed in child protection shakeup

Underfunding: Chain restricts funded-only 15-hour places

DfE does not possess the data used in childcare costs report

Outstanding nursery's 'inadequate' downgrade over mobile snaps

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