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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How to attend a Childcare and Early Education APPG meeting: · Everyone is welcome to attend an APPG meeting. · The meetings offer an opportunity to see how MPs are informed about the early years sector, and what the process is in raising awareness of the successes and challenges in early years provision. · Meetings now follow a hybrid format, with the opportunity to attend in person or on online. Watching the live link or the recording will likely suit more people for geographical/time reasons, and also space is limited in the venues, which are usually a few minutes walk from Westminster. · You don’t have to say anythin…
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We are delighted to announce an exciting new project for the Foundation Stage Forum! As announced in Nursery World today: "The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Childcare and Early Education has gained the backing of the National Day Nurseries Association, CACHE and the Foundation Stage Forum as well as the Pre-school Learning Alliance. The cross-party group is being set up following a campaign led by Cheryl Hadland, founder of Tops Day Nurseries". The APPG will work with MPs from across the political spectrum to raise the issues pertinent to our sector. The FSF chose to be part of this group as we have almost 35000 members and many Local Authorities who are keen…
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You can watch the full meeting recording here: Key Points from the Meeting Shanti Flynn, Head of Education at Storal, stated the "The biggest barrier to a truly inclusive early education offer is the lack of a national strategy with local authorities making different demands on our providers." Burden of paperwork, inconsistency at the local level, long waiting lists and the funding deficit are also clear barriers. Shanti's recommendations were greater integration at local level, especially for the 2 year progress check to ensure early intervention is done correctly. Secondly, to the review the funding deficit so that children wi…
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[Received via email from the APPG organisers] Good afternoon, I’m pleased to extend an invitation from Steve Brine MP to attend the next meeting of the APPG for Childcare & Early Education on Tuesday 25 April from 3:30pm – 4pm via Zoom This special session of the APPG will see the Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing, Claire Coutinho MP, sit down with Mr Brine to reflect on the Spring Budget and its implications for the early years. If you wish to join us online you can click here to register via the APPG’s website. Joining details for the Zoom call will be sent out shortly before the meeting. If you have any questions, please email: chil…
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Good morning, I’m pleased to extend an invitation from Steve Brine MP to attend the next meeting of the APPG for Childcare & Early Education on Tuesday 14 March from 2pm – 3pm online via Zoom. Speakers at the meeting will include: Maria Caulfield MP, Minister for Women Alison Baulos, the Executive Director, The Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago Gabriella Conti, Professor of Economics, UCL Councillor Asher Craig, Deputy Mayor, Children Services, Education and Equalities, Bristol City Council The session will explore investment in our children’s futures, what sustainable funding for early yea…
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APPG for Early Childcare and Early Education – Meeting on the 24.1.23 Meeting Brief: The session will celebrate Childcare and Early Education Week 2023, the theme of which is ‘Fund Early Years, Fund their Future’. The discussion will look to celebrate the hard work of early years practitioners whilst also looking at sustainable funding options to ensure that all children can receive the best quality early years education. This meeting will be chaired by Steve Brine MP and will hear from the following speakers: · Purnima Tanuku OBE, Chief Executive of the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) · Julie Hyde, Director of Exte…
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The APPG for childcare and early education is holding a meeting online via Zoom as part of the Childcare and Early Education Week, (beginning 23/1/23).The theme for the week this year is Fund Early Years, Fund their Future. The meeting is on Tuesday 24/1/23 at 2pm. You can find out more, and sign up to attend the meeting here.
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On 29th June this year the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Childcare and Early Education met at Westminster to discuss the theme 'a levelling up opportunity'. Speaking at the meeting were Helen Hayes MP, Dr Julian Grenier, Dr Nathan Archer, Rebecca Swindells and Doreen Barton. Doreen shared the experiences of childminders, and you can read more about what she said in this Coffee Break.
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This month (January 2021) we have the APPG for Childcare and Early Education (CEE) campaign to celebrate early years educators and the hugely important work they do. The campaign aims to raise the profile of the work done by early years professionals, to ensure politicians and policy makers understand the vital role the early years workforce has in children’s lives and futures, and to gain the respect our early years educators deserve. The campaign week will run from 24th-28th January 2022 – keep a look out for the hashtag #WeAreEducators As part of this week, the APPG are inviting educators and providers from the sector to record a short video clip talking about the…
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This post is to make you aware of the next Childcare and Early Education APPG meeting on Tuesday 25th at 2pm that will be held on Zoom. The title of this meeting is “SEND in the Early Years provision.” More detail on this event can be found in the attached graphic. If you would like to attend (and we sincerely hope you do!) please email childcareandearlyeducationappg@connectpa.co.uk for more details and to receive a link.
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