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Childcare and Early Education APPG

This forum will help you keep up to date regarding the work of the Childcare and Early Education APPG of which we are sponsors. The Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association, CACHE, Tops Day Nurseries, Dingley's Promise and the Montessori Group are also sponsors, committed to making sure the voice of early years is heard in Parliament.

The APPG for Childcare and Early Education was constituted in September 2017 as a timely response to a growing number of issues facing the sector, including the Government’s 30-hour ‘free’ childcare policy, business rates, and VAT. This cross-party group provides a forum to constructively examine and debate the role that policy makers can play to support childcare and early education providers, and to help ensure that every child gets the best start in life.

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Ofsted notification

March 30, 2016 by AnonyMouse_13453
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I got an email with this information in, today........ We are updating our online application system for childcare so that it supports the revised requirements for registration introduced by the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act on 1 January 2016. Our online system for childcare applications will be unavailable from Monday 9 May to Sunday 15 May (inclusive) whilst these changes are being made. This means that you will not be able to submit an EYO, CR1, EY2, CR2 or EYC form during this period and that you must submit any forms which are in progress before Monday 9 May. You will be unable to submit any forms started prior to 9 May after this date and you wil…

Last reply by AnonyMouse_23964, March 31, 2016
Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper

March 21, 2016 by AnonyMouse_73
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For those who haven't seen this yet, the White Paper was published immediately after the budget which announced all school must become academies or on route to by 2020. This will affect our EYFS colleagues working in the maintained sector, and who know how and if it will impact on the non maintained sector over time. It will also affect those of us that are parents/grandparents of children still at school. The link is here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/educational-excellence-everywhere As ever its a long document but from what I've read so far, a few things have popped out, which you may not be aware of from reports in the press over the past few da…
Last reply by Guest, March 29, 2016
Pilot areas for the 30 hours

February 2, 2016 by AnonyMouse_3139
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Pilot areas for the 'free' 30 hours <_< http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1155788/dfe-names-30-hour-childcare-pilot-areas?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Last reply by AnonyMouse_55063, February 25, 2016
Review of childcare costs: the analytical report

December 8, 2015 by SueFinanceManager
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Hi Thought you might be interested in this from the Dept of Education Review of childcare costs: the analytical report An economic assessment of the early education and childcare market and providers’ costs
Last reply by AnonyMouse_19762, December 8, 2015
New report Reducing poverty by promoting diverse social networks...

October 19, 2015 by AnonyMouse_73
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If you get the Nursery World updates you may have seen the headline about linking child benefit to take up of early years entitlement. (if you got past the interview with Sam Gyimah, that is) After I had picked my jaw up from the floor, I did follow the link, which is below to the report. Reducing poverty by promoting diverse social networks According to Mr Mundia, there was much grunting and 'exclaiming What?!! whilst I was reading it. Perhaps it was just me, see what you think about taking child benefit off parents who don't use their entitlement, and how this might be 'policed', Its not the only recommendation, others relate to children centres and exp…

Last reply by AnonyMouse_73, October 19, 2015
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results: 2014 to 2015

October 13, 2015 by SueFinanceManager
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Dear all For your information here is a link to Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results: 2014 to 2015
Last reply by AnonyMouse_26037, October 15, 2015
Bright ideas from Ms Morgan

October 6, 2015 by AnonyMouse_3307
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Or I make it all up as I go along. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34453564 Cx
Last reply by AnonyMouse_5970, October 7, 2015
Survey results regarding Living Wage in Birmingham

September 24, 2015 by AnonyMouse_3139
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I could have put this in the Birmingham forum but you might all be interested in having a read. Personally I'm hoping Birmingham will either drop the whole thing or make sure our funding reflects the results. We can but hope! (scroll down the page) http://www.ndna.org.uk/NDNA/News/Press_releases_2015/NDNA_welcomes_KPMG_report_on_costs_of_early_years_education_for_Birmingham_and_hopes_for_constructiv.aspx
Last reply by AnonyMouse_22106, October 1, 2015
Early Years Inspection Handbook

August 28, 2015 by AnonyMouse_22106
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https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/457006/Early_years_inspection_handbook.pdf Looks like its no longer 'draft'
Last reply by AnonyMouse_8885, August 28, 2015
Ofsted Early Years Report 2015

July 13, 2015 by AnonyMouse_3307
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ofsted-early-years-report-2015 Worth a read to see which way the wind is blowig. In his speech he talks about the Baseline as not being of any use as it is not about each individual child, but a measure of the cohort. Watch this space then as it was his comments previously which gave us baseline in the first place. Cx
Last reply by AnonyMouse_11396, July 13, 2015
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