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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Exclusive - Minister says rates and VAT changes may be considered

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Friday, October 18, 2013

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove has mooted the possibility that changes to business rate relief and VAT for nurseries could be considered at the same time as plans being looked into for academies and free schools.

New Ofsted framework: Judgements to take into account history of provider

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Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The new Ofsted inspection framework says that inspectors must keep the 'bigger picture' in mind and take into account the history of provision, including any concerns, when making their judgement.

FOI request shows very few Ofsted complaints upheld

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

| Nursery World

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request filed by a 'downgraded' nursery provider has revealed that only a tiny percentage of settings have had their complaint upheld by Ofsted and judgement changed.

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

| Nursery World

Two more venues have been added for the early years sector's Ofsted Big Conversation weekend.

Employers call for clarity on Tax Free Childcare

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Many employers are confused about the benefits of the Government's new Tax-Free Childcare scheme and unclear about how they will be involved, new research suggests.

Nursery to open in former police building

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

| Nursery World

An office building previously owned by Greater Manchester Police will be refurbished and open as a nursery early next year.

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

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

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

Owners reeling at huge increases to business rates

Nursery Management: Workforce - Rage against the machine

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

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

Exclusive - Minister says rates and VAT changes may be considered

New Ofsted framework: Judgements to take into account history of provider

FOI request shows very few Ofsted complaints upheld

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

Employers call for clarity on Tax Free Childcare

Nursery to open in former police building

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