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Sector leaders vow to oppose relaxation of childcare ratios

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Monday, October 4, 2021

| CYP Now

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

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.

Initiative aims to tackle stress in early years workforce

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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.

MPs call on government to increase 30 hours childcare funding

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The amount the government gives providers to fund the 30 hours free childcare entitlement is based on "outdated" information and needs to be increased, the treasury select committee has concluded.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

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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

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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.

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

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

| CYP Now

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.

Labour appoints shadow childcare minister

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Monday, July 3, 2017

| CYP Now

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

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

| CYP Now

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

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

| CYP Now

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

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.

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.

Providers criticise 'vague' free childcare guidance

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Monday, April 24, 2017

| CYP Now

Guidance issued by the government on how local authorities and early years providers should manage the expanded 30 hours of free childcare being introduced in September has been criticised for being too vague.

Call for 30-hour childcare to be scrapped in favour of means-testing system

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Monday, April 17, 2017

| CYP Now

The government should halt its planned introduction of 30 hours of free childcare each week in favour of a more targeted approach that benefits low income families, a think-tank has said.

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.

Councils fear 30 hours expansion will affect sustainability of settings

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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

| CYP Now

More than 40 per cent of councils believe childcare settings will take a financial hit from government plans to double free childcare entitlement to 30 hours a week from September, a study has found.

DfE study finds 'lack of appetite' for 30 hours offer among childminders

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

| CYP Now

There is a "lack of appetite" among many childminders to grow their businesses in order to deliver 30 hours of free childcare for all three-and four-year-olds, a study commissioned by the Department for Education has found.

DfE 'underestimating' demand for 30-hour places by 100,000

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Friday, January 20, 2017

| CYP Now

The government has underestimated likely take-up of the 30-hour childcare offer by more than 100,000 places, it has been claimed.

Parents 'relying on breakfast clubs' in order to work

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Monday, January 16, 2017

| CYP Now

More than a quarter of parents fear that they or their partner would have to give up work if their children could not attend a school breakfast club, research has claimed.

Fall in number of registered childminders

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

| CYP Now

The number of childminders has continued to fall, according to latest Ofsted figures.

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Sector leaders vow to oppose relaxation of childcare ratios

Childcare providers face sharp rise in costs

Initiative aims to tackle stress in early years workforce

MPs call on government to increase 30 hours childcare funding

Thousands of parents yet to receive 30 hours childcare confirmation

Free childcare take-up tops 200,000

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

Labour appoints shadow childcare minister

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

Dinenage moves on from childcare role

Early years providers 'underrepresented' on funding panels

Labour childcare plans 'to benefit 1.3m additional children'

Providers criticise 'vague' free childcare guidance

Call for 30-hour childcare to be scrapped in favour of means-testing system

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

Councils fear 30 hours expansion will affect sustainability of settings

DfE study finds 'lack of appetite' for 30 hours offer among childminders

DfE 'underestimating' demand for 30-hour places by 100,000

Parents 'relying on breakfast clubs' in order to work

Fall in number of registered childminders

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