Wales to begin expansion of funded two-year-old places
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  • Mar 16, 2022
Inspectors uphold Scottish Health Secretary’s complaint over ‘discriminatory’ nursery
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  • Nov 4, 2021
Scotland: Humza Yousaf’s complaint against nursery upheld by inspectors
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  • Nov 4, 2021
Scotland: Minister’s race complaint against nursery is upheld
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  • Nov 3, 2021
Scottish minister’s complaint against nursery upheld by inspectors
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  • Nov 3, 2021
Humza Yousaf and wife 'vindicated' by report on Little Scholars nursery
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  • Nov 3, 2021
More than 79,000 children in Scotland taking up their 1,140-hour place
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  • Oct 6, 2021
Covid in Ireland: Childcare fears leave mothers worried about enforced return to office
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  • Sep 20, 2021
Scottish Health Secretary claims nursery discriminated against daughter
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  • Aug 3, 2021
Scotland: Opposition back Humza Yousaf over nursery bias inquiry
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  • Aug 3, 2021
Scotland: Nursery 'had no space for kids with ethnic names' including health secretary's child
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  • Aug 2, 2021
Funding pressures put children with SEND at risk of missing out on nursery school places
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  • Jul 6, 2021
Funding pressures putting children with SEND at risk of missing out on nursery school places
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  • Jul 6, 2021
Double-digit fall in funded childcare registrations raises provider concerns
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  • Jul 2, 2021
DfE statistics show ‘substantial drop’ in demand for 'free childcare' places
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  • Jul 2, 2021
Coronavirus: Concern early years sector won't be able to cope with demand for places after lockdown
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  • Mar 26, 2021
Low demand for childcare puts sector's future at risk as lockdown lifts
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  • Jun 1, 2020
Early years and childcare sector at risk of collapse in England
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Coronavirus: Warning that 250,000 childcare places could be lost
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  • Apr 23, 2020
Roll-out of Scotland's 1,140 hours could face delays, warns spending watchdog
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  • Mar 3, 2020
Scotland: Fears of major delay in flagship childcare expansion scheme
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  • Mar 3, 2020
Scotland: Thousands of staff needed to hit childcare expansion deadline
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  • Mar 3, 2020
Nursery funding row: Ministers told to reveal calculations
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  • Oct 25, 2019
Places rise despite slight drop in nursery numbers
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  • Sep 19, 2019
Fresh fears over doubling of free nursery hours
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  • Aug 19, 2019
Hinds pledges more nursery places for deprived families
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  • Jul 2, 2019
DfE spends £22m expanding nursery places in primaries
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  • Jul 2, 2019
66 schools split £22m to boost nursery places
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  • Jul 2, 2019
‘Anger and confusion’ at free nursery places pilots
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  • Jul 1, 2019
DfE under more pressure to increase funding as take-up of two-year-old places drops
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  • Jun 27, 2019
Irish crèches get funds for new places and safety measures
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  • Jun 10, 2019
Rising childcare costs and patchy availability lock London parents out of full-time work
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  • Jun 5, 2019
Mayor tackles low uptake of funded two-year-old places
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  • Mar 18, 2019
30 hours offer hitting childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds
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  • Feb 28, 2019
30 hours childcare ‘is limiting choice’
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  • Feb 4, 2019
The impact of recent government policies on early years provision
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Councils warn disadvantaged children missing out on funded places
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Council survey: 30 hours offer limits disadvantaged two-year-old places
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  • Dec 14, 2018
Ofsted figures reveal loss of more than 900 providers
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  • Nov 27, 2018
Scotland: Two thirds of council nursery places are half-day only, report finds
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  • Oct 31, 2018
School nurseries capital fund
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  • Sep 8, 2018
Children from poorer families less likely to take up free pre-school place, study finds
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  • Jun 12, 2018
Free early years schemes 'disproportionately benefit the better-off'
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  • Jun 12, 2018
The woodland nursery in the middle of the forest
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  • Jun 7, 2018
Poor children 'missing out as schools struggle to fund 30 hours childcare offer'
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  • Apr 30, 2018
‘Poor children excluded’ from nursery places
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  • Apr 30, 2018
Alliance launches provider costs calculator as alternative to DfE template
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  • Apr 17, 2018
Kids Planet and Happy Days add nurseries
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  • Apr 17, 2018
Continuing struggle for parents to find a 30 hours place
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  • Apr 13, 2018
30 hours programme is hitting two-year-old places, finds report
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  • Apr 12, 2018
Childcare shortage excludes over 870,000 mothers from the workplace
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  • Mar 16, 2018
Part time nursery place in Wales tops £6000 per year
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  • Feb 28, 2018
Scotland's council-run nurseries not meeting needs of working parents
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  • Feb 20, 2018
Parents still struggle to find nursery places: Survey casts fresh doubt on SNP's childcare
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  • Feb 20, 2018
More parents applying for 30 hours, but thousands still without a place
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  • Jan 12, 2018
Free childcare to be extended to foster carers
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  • Dec 20, 2017
30-hour childcare to be extended to foster carers next year
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  • Dec 20, 2017
Free childcare take-up tops 200,000
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  • Dec 19, 2017
Thousands of UK families miss out on free childcare provision
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  • Dec 19, 2017
Thousands of parents missing out on 30 hours places
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  • Dec 19, 2017
Government social mobility plan prioritises early language
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Social mobility plan promises £50m for school nursery places
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Justine Greening unveils strategy to increase poor children's opportunities
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  • Dec 14, 2017
Record number of children left in day care
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  • Dec 3, 2017
A council told parents their children had places at school nurseries and then retracted the offers
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  • Oct 4, 2017
Scotland: Childcare failings ‘damaging 90% of parents’ careers’
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  • Sep 19, 2017
Delivery of 30 hours 'challenging' for biggest nursery groups
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Analysis: 30 hours pilot study predicts success but flags up 'risks'
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Ministers urged to ‘rethink’ or ‘delay’ introduction of 30-hours free childcare
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  • Apr 18, 2017
Most parents unlikely to get extra free childcare
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  • Apr 4, 2017
Fair funding campaign extended to parents
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  • Mar 24, 2017
Nursery funding: Information Commissioner rejects DfE case
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  • Nov 12, 2016
Tories' childcare pledge in tatters as figures show drive to reform nursery system has been failure
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  • Nov 5, 2016