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Nurseries expected to stay open for key workers from Monday

Friday, March 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Nursery workers and teachers are on the list of key workers whose children will still be able to attend nursery or school during the coronavirus outbreak.

Nurseries not covered by insurance for coronavirus closures

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

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Philippe Fraser, director of London-based Bilingual Nurseries and Les Petites Etoiles, has raised concerns about the financial viability of childcare settings if they have to close to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus: Call for early years inspections to be put on hold

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Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

Ofsted is being urged to temporarily suspend routine early years inspections in light of the ongoing coronavirus spread.

Nursery group pledges to stay open for NHS staff

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Friday, March 20, 2020

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Tops Day Nurseries intend to keep all settings open during the coronavirus outbreak to support NHS staff.

Coronavirus: London nursery group forks out £6,000 a week for Covid testing kits

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

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London’s largest nursery group is providing weekly lateral flow tests for its 700 staff, at a monthly cost of £23,584, because private and voluntary settings are not provided with home testing kits, unlike the maintained sector.

Coronavirus: Early years settings and schools no longer expected to carry out contact tracing

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Monday, July 19, 2021

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From today, early years settings and schools will no longer be responsible for contacting parents about positive cases in their child’s class or bubble, as contact tracing responsibility in education moves to NHS Test and Trace.

Analysis: Doubts raised over the impact of next year's rise in funding

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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Wage increases, uncertainty over local authority payments for funded hours and the return of business rates, amid other costs, dampen the funding announcement. By Catherine Gaunt

Progress stalled in achieving a degree-led workforce, figures suggest

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Friday, December 10, 2021

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New data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows the percentage of practitioners with degrees working in nurseries has risen marginally since the same research in 2019.

Coronavirus: DfE publishes update for early years settings

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Friday, January 7, 2022

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The Department for Education has updated its Covid guidance for early years settings to reflect the latest changes to testing and self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus forced childcare providers to take dire action, study shows

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

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Covid has seen professionals cut staff, use reserves and even sell belongings, but researchers say an early years education and care-led recovery is now vital, as Katy Morton reports

Nursery education funding 'must be protected' to curb free places crisis

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

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The early years sector faces 'chronic underfunding', which threatens to put at risk the Government's plans to expand free nursery education places for two-year-olds.

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

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

Settings warn their viability is at risk under 30 hours

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Monday, September 4, 2017

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Close to two-fifths of childcare providers think the 30 hours policy could put them out of business.

Childcare providers raise concerns over future funding of two-year-old scheme

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Friday, June 14, 2013

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Some providers fear that the existing levels of funding they receive through local authorities for the two-year-old entitlement will reduce when the programme expands beyond 2014.

Settings face cuts after council overspend

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Monday, April 1, 2019

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Childcare providers in Northamptonshire may be forced to get rid of staff, resources or reduce their own salaries if the county council goes ahead with plans to cut early years funding from April.

EYPP could help create 'teacher-led' settings

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Monday, June 30, 2014

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The Government's consultation on the introduction of the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) encourages early years providers to use the funding to make their settings 'teacher-led'.

Scottish Government provides £460,000 for extra early years training

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Friday, January 3, 2014

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Childcare training in Scotland is receiving a £460,000 boost from the Scottish government for post-graduate and professional development places.

Conservative leadership candidates: early years and schools round-up

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

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With the first ballot's results now announced, and 3 MPs eliminated, we take a look at wherre the 7 remaining Conservative leadership candidates stand on childcare and education.

Hard facts of funding gap revealed

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Monday, November 17, 2014

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The true scale of the funding shortfall for childcare places in the early years sector is revealed in new research from the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Ruth Thomson takes a look at the numbers.

Childcare minister hosts reception for the sector

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

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Education and childcare minister Sam Gyimah invited guests from across the early years sector to a formal reception in London's Lancaster House yesterday.