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Childcare leaders reject 30-hour funding plans

Thursday, September 22, 2016

| CYP Now

Early years groups have warned that government plans to offer 30 hours a week of free childcare from next year will only work if nurseries are allowed to levy charges on parents for using the entitlement.

Childcare campaigners achieve ratio petition target

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

| CYP Now

Campaigners fighting plans to reduce staff-to-child ratios in childcare have gained enough backing to trigger an official response from the government.

Tax-free childcare plans ‘will benefit low-income families'

News

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| CYP Now

Government plans to significantly reduce childcare costs could have a major benefit for low-income parents, a think-tank has said.

Children's centre to sue local authority

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

| CYP Now

A children's centre has confirmed it will take legal action against Blackburn with Darwen Council for providing inadequate funding.

MPs call for extension of 30 hours childcare to all children

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| CYP Now

The government's 30 hours free childcare initiative should be extended to all children as part of efforts to tackle social and economic inequalities, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said.

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

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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.

Trials of controversial baseline checks to start in September

News

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

| CYP Now

Trials of the controversial new test for reception-age children are to get under way in September, the organisation developing the checks has confirmed.

Pressure mounts over changes to childcare ratios

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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

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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.

Early years apprentice framework adds GCSE requirements

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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.

Literacy campaign champions early education role

News

Monday, September 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Early years professionals look set to play a key role in improving the literacy of disadvantaged children as part of a new national campaign to boost reading standards.

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| CYP Now

The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has warned that the move to a single inspection framework covering all education provision must not lead to further "schoolification" of the early years.

NDNA warns over 'light touch' school regulation

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Friday, October 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Proposals that could see schools providing early years education to young children opt out of Ofsted regulations have been criticised by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) for being too "light touch".

Prioritise free childcare for disadvantaged children, say peers

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

| CYP Now

A House of Lords Committee is calling for a radical rethink in childcare funding to ensure disadvantaged children are prioritised.

Government accelerates plans to double free childcare allowance

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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.

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Childcare leaders reject 30-hour funding plans

Childcare campaigners achieve ratio petition target

Tax-free childcare plans ‘will benefit low-income families'

Children's centre to sue local authority

MPs call for extension of 30 hours childcare to all children

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

Trials of controversial baseline checks to start in September

Pressure mounts over changes to childcare ratios

School-based nurseries to have separate Ofsted rating

Early years apprentice framework adds GCSE requirements

Literacy campaign champions early education role

NDNA urges early years expertise in new school inspection framework

NDNA warns over 'light touch' school regulation

Prioritise free childcare for disadvantaged children, say peers

Government accelerates plans to double free childcare allowance

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