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Keir Starmer sets out six key pledges for next Labour Government, including recruiting 6,500 teachers
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- Thursday, May 16, 2024 | Nursery World
Labour leader Keir Starmer has set out Labour’s ‘first steps for change’ in a plan for Britain, should the party win the next general election, and also said ending child poverty would be central.
Funding for childcare places has dropped in more than 50 local authorities since April
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2024 | Nursery World
Funding for two-year-old places is lower in 57 council areas than it was last September, according to an analysis of funding rates by the National Day Nurseries Association, which also warns that Government funding ‘is not reaching the frontline’.
Government 'pushed' for action to prevent the number of childminders falling to just 1,000
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2024 | Nursery World
There are calls for urgent Government action to stop the decline in childminders as research suggests just 1,000 will be left in England by 2035.
Applications open for funded hours for nine-month-olds, but sector warns of difficulty finding a place
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- Monday, May 13, 2024 | Nursery World
As applications open for parents of nine-month-olds to apply for the 15- hour funding, concerns have been raised that early years providers won't be able to meet the increased demand.
New survey seeks to find out if early years providers feel prepared for the expanded offer
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- Monday, May 13, 2024 | Nursery World
Early years providers are invited to take part in a new survey covering the expanded entitlement, views on political party policies and home learning.
Report provides roadmap for 'a new era' of Sure Start
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- Friday, May 10, 2024 | Nursery World
Schools and nurseries should be put at the centre of a new updated model for Sure Start, according to a new report by think tank Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives.
Start for Life services – Ofsted and CQC report highlights positives alongside areas for improvement
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- Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | Nursery World
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have released research analysing the success of Start for Life services in six areas of England.
All about… family hubs
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- Wednesday, May 1, 2024 | Nursery World
With Children’s Centres having declined by a third since their peak of 3,600,Hannah Crown asks to what extent the new family hubs build on the legacy of Sure Start
Book your spot at our free business webinar on expanded childcare
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- Wednesday, May 1, 2024 | Nursery World
The expansion of funded childcare brings with it both opportunities and challenges for early years settings of all sizes to manage, with an increase to administration and paperwork.
Lockdown Babies: Policy and funding
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- Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | Nursery World
Jo Parkes looks at what the Government’s policy has been for the early years sector post-pandemic, and if a Labour government would change things
LONG READ: Nursery World Survey – Most providers unable to meet demand for ‘free’ twos offer
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- Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | Nursery World
Respondents to a Nursery World survey cite insufficient space and problems recruiting extra staff as reasons for putting children on waiting lists.
Ofsted: Government rules in favour of keeping single-word judgements
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- Friday, April 26, 2024 | Nursery World
The Government has said that single-word inspection judgements will stay, despite recommendations from the education select committee of MPs that they should be scrapped and replaced with a more ‘nuanced’ system.
Tributes paid to peer and anti-poverty campaigner Frank Field
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- Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Nursery World
Tributes have been paid by children’s charities to former Labour minister Frank Field, a veteran campaigner against poverty and social injustice.
Scottish Government told to expand funded places to help families escape poverty
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- Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Nursery World
There remains a ‘significant amount of work to be done to give children the best chance of growing up free from poverty in Scotland’, concludes a new report.
Expanded offer 'ambitious' against background of uncertainty around costs and benefits
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- Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | Nursery World
A damning report highlights how the expanded offer was rushed with dates for the rollout being set by the Government without understanding capacity, and opportunities to pilot the ‘ambitious’ policy cancelled.
Alison Featherbe: 'Lessons from past safeguarding cases have driven the need for clarity'
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- Tuesday, April 23, 2024 | Nursery World
Early years expert Alison Featherbe delves deeper into the DfE's plans to change the safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.
Early years FE college tutors could be eligible for an extra £6,000 a year from September
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- Tuesday, April 23, 2024 | Nursery World
From September early years teachers in further education colleges will be offered an extra £6,000.
DfE seeks views on new experience-based route qualification for early years practitioners
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- Monday, April 22, 2024 | Nursery World
A consultation on plans to introduce a new experience-based route for unqualified early years practitioners to count in ratios has been launched today.
Plans to strengthen safeguarding rules in the EYFS out for consultation
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- Monday, April 22, 2024 | Nursery World
Plans to ensure individuals working in early years settings have reference checks, and new requirements to follow up if a child is absent from nursery for a prolonged period of time, are some of the measures set out in a new early years safeguarding consultation.
Sector raises concern as survey shows most early years providers haven't increased their places
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- Monday, April 22, 2024 | Nursery World
Most early years providers have not changed the number of places they offer, despite an additional 85,000 places being needed for the full roll out of the expanded offer.
Pilot childcare scheme to run in schools this summer
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- Friday, April 19, 2024 | Nursery World
Private, voluntary and independent nurseries will take part in a pilot of childcare in schools starting this summer.
More than 51,600 two-year-olds without a funded place
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- Friday, April 19, 2024 | Nursery World
Around 51,645 two-year-olds have yet to take up their funded place, reveal the latest Government figures.
Families impacted by two-child benefits limit ‘struggling to keep their head above water’
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- Thursday, April 18, 2024 | Nursery World
The two-child benefits cap has put families in financial hardship, reduced their opportunities to learn and impacted their mental health, finds research.
One in five schools on the ‘frontline’ of supporting families with food poverty
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- Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | Nursery World
There are now more than 4,000 food banks running in schools in England, which equates to one in every five primary and secondary schools in the country, according to new research.
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