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Friday, May 17, 2024

| Nursery World

A manifesto from over 30 organisations within the early years sector calls for childcare costs to be reduced, a new workforce strategy implemented and fair and sustainable funding.

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.

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.

Nursery leaders call on Government to make food standards stricter within the EYFS

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

| Nursery World

The sector is calling on the Government to deliver stricter, clearer and more specific food standards for early years settings.

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.

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.

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.

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.