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High-qualified early years workforce will benefit all

Monday, June 25, 2012

| CYP Now

Three Cs go to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's final report to the government on early years qualifications: it is clear, compelling and courageous.

Government rejects call to increase childcare support for out-of-work parents

News

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

| CYP Now

A call by MPs to give out-of-work parents more help with childcare costs while undertaking training has been rejected by the government.

Pressure mounts over changes to childcare ratios

News

Friday, March 22, 2013

| CYP Now

The UK's largest childcare provider has said it will not be taking advantage of government plans to relax childcare ratios amid growing opposition to the proposal.

School-based nurseries to have separate Ofsted rating

News

Thursday, July 3, 2014

| CYP Now

School-based nurseries and reception classes will receive separate inspection ratings from September, the head of Ofsted has confirmed.

Daily roundup: Care applications, school holidays and social care

Other

Thursday, July 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Data reveals increase in care applications; police chief urges leniency for school term-time leave requests from officers; and president of children's services directors criticised for social worker comments, all in the news today.

Early years apprentice framework adds GCSE requirements

News

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Entry standards for the new early years apprenticeship will require applicants to hold English and maths GCSE grades A* to C despite concerns from childcare leaders that it raises the bar too high, the sector's skills body has confirmed.

Ageing society has implications for entire children's workforce

Other

Monday, March 30, 2015

| CYP Now

We're all getting older. But what has an ageing society got to do with the children's and young people's sector?

Government accelerates plans to double free childcare allowance

News

Monday, June 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The government is fast-tracking plans to double provision of free childcare to 30 hours a week, with trials set to launch in September 2016, a year earlier than previously planned.

Councils accused of jeopardising government childcare plans

News

Friday, June 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils have been accused of putting government childcare plans in "significant jeopardy", because they are failing to monitor the number of childcare places in their areas.

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Other

Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

Children and young people's issues featured prominently during Jeremy Corbyn's successful campaign to become Labour leader. So what is he pledging to do, and what do sector leaders think of his emerging policies?

Childcare problems to leave families with disabled children worse off, charities warn

News

Monday, November 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Government plans to offset benefit cuts with the expansion of free early education could leave many disabled families worse off because of the problems they face accessing childcare, a group of charities has warned.

Government refuses to publish evidence submitted to cost of childcare review

News

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has said it will not publish responses submitted as part of the consultation into the cost of childcare.

Government urged to restrict expanded free childcare to poorest children

News

Thursday, January 28, 2016

| CYP Now

The government has been urged to ditch plans to expand free childcare provision to 30 hours a week for all working parents and replace it with a means-tested system.

Nine children's centres at risk as council proposes cuts to save £1.5m

News

Friday, April 1, 2016

| CYP Now

A council is considering reducing the number of children's centres it runs as part of efforts to save £1.47m.

Ask the Experts: Making a move to management

Best Practice

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

| CYP Now

Our expert panel offers advice on staff supervision, team motivation, life skills for young people and engaging nursery children with the arts.

Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's early education'

News

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

| CYP Now

The education of younger children is being put at risk by a shortage in trained early years teachers across nurseries in England, a charity has warned.

Childcare funding reform allocations fail to plug provision gaps

News

Thursday, September 15, 2016

| CYP Now

Funding allocated to individual councils under the government's proposed early years national funding formula does not prioritise areas that most need to boost childcare places, the Family and Childcare Trust (Fact) has warned.

Nursery leaders round on Truss criticism

News

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| CYP Now

Early years leaders have accused childcare minister Elizabeth Truss of failing to understand education, after she branded UK nurseries "chaotic".

NDNA and DfE to trial early years ratios

News

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| CYP Now

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is to trial rarely used maximum child-to-staff ratios in early years settings as part of a Department for Education-funded project.

Test ratios in 'real-life nursery', urges NDNA chief

News

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

| CYP Now

The government should base its childcare reforms on "real-life nursery situations" and not on a "paper exercise", the head of an early years charity has argued.

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High-qualified early years workforce will benefit all

Government rejects call to increase childcare support for out-of-work parents

Pressure mounts over changes to childcare ratios

School-based nurseries to have separate Ofsted rating

Daily roundup: Care applications, school holidays and social care

Early years apprentice framework adds GCSE requirements

Ageing society has implications for entire children's workforce

Government accelerates plans to double free childcare allowance

Councils accused of jeopardising government childcare plans

Corbyn's policies for children and young people under the spotlight

Childcare problems to leave families with disabled children worse off, charities warn

Government refuses to publish evidence submitted to cost of childcare review

Government urged to restrict expanded free childcare to poorest children

Nine children's centres at risk as council proposes cuts to save £1.5m

Ask the Experts: Making a move to management

Nursery teacher shortage 'risks children's early education'

Childcare funding reform allocations fail to plug provision gaps

Nursery leaders round on Truss criticism

NDNA and DfE to trial early years ratios

Test ratios in 'real-life nursery', urges NDNA chief

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