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DfE 'unable to understand' cost of childcare following review

Friday, October 2, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) has said it is "unable to understand" the true cost of delivering the free entitlement despite more than 2,000 responses from the sector to its review of the cost of childcare.

Childcare funding rate to be announced at Spending Review

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

| CYP Now

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has confirmed that details of the funding rate for extended free childcare will be announced this month.

Childcare providers set to get right to apply for school-based services

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Monday, December 7, 2015

| CYP Now

Childcare providers could be given the right to apply to deliver wraparound care using school facilities, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

Nurseries paying higher wages perform better, study finds

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

| CYP Now

Early years settings that pay staff more money generally offer better-quality provision, a study has concluded.

Parents turning to nurseries for advice following children's centre cuts

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

Cuts to English children's centres are putting pressure on nurseries to provide additional support to vulnerable families, the early years sector has warned.

Free childcare expansion could disadvantage poorer children, warns think-tank

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Monday, June 20, 2016

| CYP Now

Disadvantaged children are most likely to miss out on free childcare when the 30-hour expansion comes into effect, experts have warned.

Parents need comparison website for childcare providers, says think-tank

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

| CYP Now

The government should set up a comparison website for childcare providers to drive-up quality and engage parents, a think-tank has said.

Guide aims to help childcare settings be more inclusive to disabled children

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

| CYP Now

The Daycare Trust has produced a guide for nurseries and schools to help them be more inclusive to families with disabled children.

£80m Life Chances Fund opens to early years bids

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Thursday, January 5, 2017

| CYP Now

Early years organisations delivering high quality, evidence-based interventions can apply for a slice of funding worth £80m, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Cabinet Office have announced.

Funding formula values free nursery places at 2 per hour

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

| CYP Now

Nurseries are receiving as little as 2.05 per hour per child in local authority funding to foot the cost of the free entitlement for early education.

Nursery schools 'at risk of extinction', MP warns

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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

| CYP Now

The long-term viability and sustainability of nursery schools is "hanging by a thread", Labour's former shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, has said.

Unions urge Greening to rethink nursery school funding changes

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Thursday, November 10, 2016

| CYP Now

The government should reconsider the planned cuts to maintained nursery school funding if it is to prevent dozens of settings closing, education experts have said.

Council offers training grants to increase childcare capacity

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

| CYP Now

Bradford Council is offering training grants to local people interested in childcare to help meet a shortage of early years places for two-year-olds.

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.

Nurseries to charge parents and restrict places for 30 hours offer

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Friday, August 11, 2017

| CYP Now

Most nurseries planning to offer 30 hours free childcare will only do so by charging parents and restricting numbers, due to concerns over the level of funding on offer, a survey has revealed.

Busy Bees acquires third largest early years group

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Friday, August 24, 2012

| CYP Now

Busy Bees has strengthened its dominance in the nursery sector after acquiring the UK's third largest early years group.

MP calls for urgent overhaul of childcare regulation

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Monday, May 21, 2012

| CYP Now

The system for regulating childcare is in need of urgent reform to ease the financial burden on parents, a report by a Conservative MP has concluded.

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.

More than a third of nurseries are unsatisfied with the level of council support

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

| CYP Now

Nursery providers have reported that levels of support offered by local authorities have fallen significantly over the past two years.

Birmingham providers forced to pay 'living wage' to retain childcare funding

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

| CYP Now

Nursery owners in Birmingham have been told they will be stripped of funding to deliver the government's free childcare schemes unless they pay staff enhanced wages.

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DfE 'unable to understand' cost of childcare following review

Childcare funding rate to be announced at Spending Review

Childcare providers set to get right to apply for school-based services

Nurseries paying higher wages perform better, study finds

Parents turning to nurseries for advice following children's centre cuts

Free childcare expansion could disadvantage poorer children, warns think-tank

Parents need comparison website for childcare providers, says think-tank

Guide aims to help childcare settings be more inclusive to disabled children

£80m Life Chances Fund opens to early years bids

Funding formula values free nursery places at 2 per hour

Nursery schools 'at risk of extinction', MP warns

Unions urge Greening to rethink nursery school funding changes

Council offers training grants to increase childcare capacity

Childcare providers face sharp rise in costs

Nurseries to charge parents and restrict places for 30 hours offer

Busy Bees acquires third largest early years group

MP calls for urgent overhaul of childcare regulation

Early years providers 'underrepresented' on funding panels

More than a third of nurseries are unsatisfied with the level of council support

Birmingham providers forced to pay 'living wage' to retain childcare funding

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