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The continuing saga of the childcare cost

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  • Friday, February 24, 2023
    • | CYP Now
We have been raising the issues of childcare funding for over 10 years. It has been so long, I am amazed at how patient I’ve remained – and I’m not usually that patient. I get an itch waiting in queues.

Engage in staff:child nursery ratio debate

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  • Monday, November 21, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In July I wrote a blog calling parents, staff and colleagues to get their heads around the ratio debate and understand why reducing ratios are bad for children, bad for staff and will not reduce fees to parents.

How to adjust ratios and maintain quality

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  • Monday, October 17, 2022
    • | CYP Now
There is little doubt that the recruitment and retention issues facing the sector continue to cause concern and are impacting on the ability of more and more providers to meet the needs of children and parents.

Ratio revolution?

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  • Monday, October 10, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Rumour has it the former early years minister, and now prime minister, Liz Truss is considering ditching the recently proposed tweaks to adult: child ratios and axing them altogether.

The benefits of attending a research conference

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  • Friday, September 9, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Every year I try and get LEYF staff to attend and present at the annual EECERA conference. I have been doing this since 2004 , although we have not attended every conference mostly because some places were a bit expensive for us and my conference savings pot wouldn’t stretch.

Wake up, rethink the funding

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  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
Last week I was contacted by national radio and TV to do an interview about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and how this will affect both parents and staff.

Exposing the unhelpful rules and regulations in early education

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  • Wednesday, June 22, 2022
    • | CYP Now
I recently had the opportunity to attend (in person) the launch of new research: Implications of COVID for Early Childhood Education and Care in England, a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, that was carried out by the Centre for Evidence and Implementation, the University of East London, Frontier Economics, Coram Family and Childcare and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Save our staff: child ratios

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  • Friday, April 22, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In 2013, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) Elizabeth Truss decided to pursue a plan to reduce staff:child ratios.

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