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Parents need comparison website for childcare providers, says think-tank

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

| CYP Now

The government should set up a comparison website for childcare providers to drive-up quality and engage parents, a think-tank has said.

Guide aims to help childcare settings be more inclusive to disabled children

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

| CYP Now

The Daycare Trust has produced a guide for nurseries and schools to help them be more inclusive to families with disabled children.

£80m Life Chances Fund opens to early years bids

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Thursday, January 5, 2017

| CYP Now

Early years organisations delivering high quality, evidence-based interventions can apply for a slice of funding worth £80m, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Cabinet Office have announced.

Political parties urged to back loan scheme for childcare

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

| CYP Now

A think-tank is urging the three main political parties to support its plans to introduce government loans of up to 10,000 to help parents cover the cost of childcare.

Councils divert two-year-old childcare money to fund SEN

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Local authorities are using funding that is intended to provide childcare for two-year-olds to top up special educational needs budgets, CYP Now has discovered.

Council offers training grants to increase childcare capacity

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Bradford Council is offering training grants to local people interested in childcare to help meet a shortage of early years places for two-year-olds.

Childcare providers face sharp rise in costs

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Monday, March 4, 2019

| CYP Now

Costs to childcare providers have risen sharply over the last three years, a government-funded study suggests.

Government launches early years healthy eating drive

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Monday, November 13, 2017

| CYP Now

Example menus and recipes have been published by government as part of efforts to encourage early years settings to provide healthy meals for young children.

Labour childcare plans 'to benefit 1.3m additional children'

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

| CYP Now

An additional 1.3m children will benefit from plans to extend free childcare entitlement, Labour has revealed.

Early years providers 'underrepresented' on funding panels

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Monday, June 12, 2017

| CYP Now

Local authorities are making "unfair and unbalanced" early years funding decisions because the sector is underrepresented on official decision-making forums, a childcare organisation has claimed.

'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

| CYP Now

A doubling of the early years pupil premium is being called for by the Social Mobility Commission, as part of an ambitious set of demands to halt two decades of "failed" attempts by government to improve life chances for poorer families.

Early years accounts for two-thirds of Ofsted complaints

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Friday, June 13, 2014

| CYP Now

Two-thirds of all formal complaints made against Ofsted over the past year were from early years providers.

Childcare minister launches drive to boost school early education provision

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is to fund 26 schools to act as "champions" for providing early education to disadvantaged two-year-olds as part of a major drive to get schools more involved in delivering free childcare.

Free early years schemes 'disproportionately benefit the better-off'

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

| CYP Now

Government initiatives to offer free early education are disproportionately benefitting children from affluent families, analysis of pupil data has concluded.

Childcare at two fails to improve outcomes, reports DfE study

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

| CYP Now

A government pilot of early education provision for two-year-olds did not result in improved outcomes by the age of five, a Department for Education study has concluded.

Family and Childcare Trust to join Coram group in face of funding challenges

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Thursday, July 26, 2018

| CYP Now

The Family and Childcare Trust is to become part of the Coram group to secure its long-term future in an "increasingly competitive and difficult environment".

'Unrealistic' academic standards failing children, warn early years experts

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Monday, November 11, 2013

| CYP Now

Government expectations of education standards for young children are "unrealistic and inappropriate", a group of early years experts has warned.

DfE data reveals 10,000 fewer childcare providers plan to offer 30-hour places

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

| CYP Now

More than 10,000 fewer childcare providers are planning to offer 30 hours of free childcare provision than offer the current 15 hours, it has emerged.

Early years settings to receive £50m to improve social mobility

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

| CYP Now

The government has pledged to plough £50m into bolstering early years provision in disadvantaged areas, as part of an action plan to improve social mobility.

Glitch left thousands of families 'at risk of missing out' on free childcare

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

| CYP Now

The government has said it will take action to address a technical issue that campaigners have claimed left thousands of low-income families at risk of missing out on free childcare entitlements.

London childcare providers feel the strain of parents not paying fees

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Monday, June 27, 2011

| CYP Now

Parents' inability to pay childcare fees has topped the list of concerns for providers in London, the Daycare Trust has found.

Three-quarters of EYFS settings score good or outstanding

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Friday, September 9, 2011

| CYP Now

More than three-quarters of childcare settings delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage were judged as good or outstanding by Ofsted.

Labour appoints new shadow childcare minister

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

| CYP Now

The Labour Party has appointed Wirral South MP Alison McGovern as the new shadow childcare minister.

Children's centres 'losing universal provision ethos'

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Funding cuts mean children's centres are increasingly supporting only the most disadvantaged families rather than offering universal provision, a government-commissioned report has found.

Spending Review: Family hubs ‘no replacement’ for Sure Start, critics say

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

| CYP Now

An £82m investment to create 75 family hubs in England is “no replacement” for Sure Start and the closure of thousands of children’s centres, critics have said.

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Parents need comparison website for childcare providers, says think-tank

Guide aims to help childcare settings be more inclusive to disabled children

£80m Life Chances Fund opens to early years bids

Political parties urged to back loan scheme for childcare

Councils divert two-year-old childcare money to fund SEN

Council offers training grants to increase childcare capacity

Childcare providers face sharp rise in costs

Government launches early years healthy eating drive

Labour childcare plans 'to benefit 1.3m additional children'

Early years providers 'underrepresented' on funding panels

'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap

Early years accounts for two-thirds of Ofsted complaints

Childcare minister launches drive to boost school early education provision

Free early years schemes 'disproportionately benefit the better-off'

Childcare at two fails to improve outcomes, reports DfE study

Family and Childcare Trust to join Coram group in face of funding challenges

'Unrealistic' academic standards failing children, warn early years experts

DfE data reveals 10,000 fewer childcare providers plan to offer 30-hour places

Early years settings to receive £50m to improve social mobility

Glitch left thousands of families 'at risk of missing out' on free childcare

London childcare providers feel the strain of parents not paying fees

Three-quarters of EYFS settings score good or outstanding

Labour appoints new shadow childcare minister

Children's centres 'losing universal provision ethos'

Spending Review: Family hubs ‘no replacement’ for Sure Start, critics say

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