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Early Years Careers Launch new shop - Piggledots Early Years Careers are incredibly excited and proud to announce the launch of our brand new early years resources shop ‘Piggledots’ The demand for the early years resources and products created and sold by early years careers has rapidly increased over the past few months so it was … [Read more...] about Early Years Resources now sold in Early Years Careers new shop

Families to benefit from £55 million boost to childcare schemes From: Department for Education and Caroline Dinenage MP Nearly 18,000 new childcare places created to help deliver 30 hours of free childcare. Thousands of new childcare places for working parents around the country are being created thanks to a … [Read more...] about £55 million boost to childcare scheme

      A new childcare support and advice benefit for London Staff   New childcare support provided by Parental Choice will be offered to employees based at the organisation Northern Trust. This service will help employees search for all types of childcare for all ages; it will also inform parents about payroll, … [Read more...] about Global financial services Northern Trust offers support for childcare

Nurseries in Wales are going to struggle financially to stay open Due to low funding and the rise in business rates nurseries in Wales are going to struggle to stay open, providers fear the worse. According to an Annual Survey for Wales carried out by NDNA found that Wales daycare is at risk at a time when Welsh Government are set to … [Read more...] about Many nurseries in Wales fear the worse

Government are to provide all children with free school meals Under Labour government, all children attending state education at a primary school will receive free school meals. This has been announced by Shadow leader Jeremy Corbyn. Providing these free meals will cost £1bn. Children attending their first three years of state education are … [Read more...] about Children set to receive Free School Meals under new Labour Government

New logo has been launched by Ofsted for the grade Good and Outstanding    A new logo for the grade Good and Outstanding can be downloaded and used by childcare providers. The logo has been launched by Ofsted. All settings that are graded good and outstanding can easily download the logo and display it for everyone to see. The … [Read more...] about New Logo for Good and Outstanding Ofsted settings

Childcare providers only option is to increase fees to survive With the 30hrs free childcare scheme set to roll out across the country in September, many childcare providers are concerned about being sustainable.Therefore many childcare providers are considering increasing fees as well as introducing extra charges to help claw back the shortfall … [Read more...] about Nursery fees rise due to free childcare scheme

Gov e-petition created to help save the maintenance and renewal of children's play areas This petition was set up by a grandfather who has 7 grandchildren The idea of my gov.e-petition came from seeing several reports in the media about the cuts in budgets Local Authorities were having to make and that some Local Authorities are considering … [Read more...] about Help save children’s play areas

30hrs free childcare pilot scheme accessed by thousands of families The number of families accessing the 30hrs free childcare pilot scheme has exceeded the amount expected. Over 5,400 childcare places have already been taken up across the eight council areas that formed part of the pilot scheme. The target set last year was 5,000 of which this … [Read more...] about Thousands of parents access the 30hrs free childcare pilot scheme.

Instead of testing seven year old's Government now want to test four-year-old's instead Tests completed by seven year old's ( SATS) are to be scrapped, the decision for this being children are put under too much pressure leading to them becoming stressed.  Government is now promising to introduce a baseline assessment for four year … [Read more...] about Department for Education propose tests for 4 year olds