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Fresh start for childminding

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

| CYP Now

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

Features

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

| CYP Now

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

Analysis

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

| CYP Now

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

Implications of ratios change

Analysis

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| CYP Now

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

News

Thursday, October 7, 2021

| CYP Now

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

News

Monday, October 4, 2021

| CYP Now

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

Spotlight on childcare funding policies

Analysis

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

| CYP Now

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

Childcare providers face sharp rise in costs

News

Monday, March 4, 2019

| CYP Now

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

News

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

| CYP Now

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

News

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

| CYP Now

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

News

Monday, March 26, 2018

| CYP Now

The amount the government gives providers to fund the 30 hours free childcare entitlement is based on "outdated" information and needs to be increased, the treasury select committee has concluded.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

News

Monday, January 15, 2018

| CYP Now

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

News

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

| CYP Now

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

News

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

| CYP Now

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

News

Friday, October 20, 2017

| CYP Now

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.

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