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Fresh start for childminding

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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Childminders provide essential childcare for many families, but numbers continue to fall. How can services successfully recruit and support more childminders and help reverse the decline?

Legal Update: Impact of EYFS reforms

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

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Emma Goddard, membership and communications officer at Coram Family and Childcare, outlines the changes to early years standards and what the impact of these will be for providers and children.

Childminder payment plans

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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Cash inducements for new childminders are insufficient to tackle the sector's decline, say experts.

Implications of ratios change

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

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The government has announced plans to relax rules on how many children childcare staff can look after.

Health visitor funding and better childcare needed to support new parents, say MPs

Thursday, October 7, 2021

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MPs have called for a strengthening of support for those that became parents during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sector leaders vow to oppose relaxation of childcare ratios

Monday, October 4, 2021

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Early years leaders have hit out at rumoured government plans to relax childcare ratios.

Spotlight on childcare funding policies

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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Councils urged to check on nursery providers’ "free" childcare charging practices after ombudsman ruling in Leicestershire case.

Childcare providers face sharp rise in costs

Monday, March 4, 2019

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

Initiative aims to tackle stress in early years workforce

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

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Early years providers are urged to take part in a government-backed initiative which aims to cut stressors that are "taking their toll" on the workforce.

Childminders leave sector at rate of six-a-day

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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An average of six childminders a day left the sector in the three months ending in March this year, new figures show.

MPs call on government to increase 30 hours childcare funding

Monday, March 26, 2018

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The amount the government gives providers to fund the 30 hours free childcare entitlement is based on "outdated" information and needs to be increased, the treasury select committee has concluded.

Thousands of parents yet to receive 30 hours childcare confirmation

Monday, January 15, 2018

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Nearly 60,000 eligibility codes for the second term of the government's 30 hours free childcare initiative have yet to be validated, government figures show.

Free childcare take-up tops 200,000

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

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More than 200,000 children have benefitted from the government's extended free childcare initiative during the first term, figures have shown.

Childminder numbers fall by a quarter since 2012

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

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The number of childminders has plummeted by more than 25 per cent over the last five years, according to latest Ofsted registration figures.

Childcare costs rise seven times faster than income

Friday, October 20, 2017

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Childcare costs have increased up to seven times faster than wages in some areas since 2008, analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has revealed.

Thousands of parents 'unable to access 30 hours free childcare'

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

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More than 20,000 eligible parents are yet to claim the extended 30 hours of free childcare, more than six weeks after the flagship government initiative launched, it has emerged.

Nursery staff 'require pay cut' for 30 hours childcare to be sustainable

Monday, September 4, 2017

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For government's new 30-hour free childcare initiative to be sustainable, nurseries would have to pay their staff below the minimum wage to break even, a think-tank has claimed.

'Parents to face additional charges' for 30 hours childcare

Thursday, August 31, 2017

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Half of early years providers plan to increase or introduce extra charges to parents to recoup the cost of offering the government's 30 hours of free childcare policy, it has been claimed.

Labour accuses government of failing parents on 30 hours free childcare offer

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

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The government is failing parents over the implementation of 30 hours free childcare due to problems they are facing in registering for the scheme, Labour has said.

Morgan demands answers on 30 hours' free childcare website glitches

Thursday, August 3, 2017

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Former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has called for answers as to why the website for parents to apply for 30 hours of free childcare has been experiencing technical problems, indicating that the matter could be investigated by the treasury select committee.

Labour appoints shadow childcare minister

Monday, July 3, 2017

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Labour has announced that a former Coronation Street actor will be the party's new shadow childcare minister.

Childcare spending suffers real-terms cut in quarter of local authorities

Thursday, June 15, 2017

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Childcare funding has suffered a real-terms cut in more than a quarter of local authorities in England over the past five years despite additional government funding, an investigation has found.

Dinenage moves on from childcare role

Thursday, June 15, 2017

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Childcare minister Caroline Dinenage has been moved to a new role at the Department for Work and Pensions, it has emerged.

Rise in childcare places in areas piloting 30 hours offer

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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There has been an increase in the number of childcare places available in areas piloting the extended 30 hours offer, although the overall number of registered childminders is continuing to fall, Ofsted figures have shown.

Early years providers 'underrepresented' on funding panels

Monday, June 12, 2017

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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.

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