Parents plan to have less children due to spiralling childcare costs
New research from smart money app Plum has laid bare the painful choices parents are having to make in the wake of spiralling childcare bills.
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New research from smart money app Plum has laid bare the painful choices parents are having to make in the wake of spiralling childcare bills.
Read moreToday (17 Jan) National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) launches its annual national nursery conference with reduced price tickets.
Read moreNew statistics released by DfE and Ofsted reveal that recruitment and retention crisis remains prevalent while nurseries remain determined to keeping rising cost down and support their children.
Read moreWith childcare providers’ costs due to rise dramatically from April, the Government has today unveiled hourly funding rates which for nurseries in some local authorities will only rise by 1%.
Read moreNational Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru’s Childcare Works programme continues to bring vital new recruits into the into the Childcare, Early Years and Play sector.
Read moreNurseries in England would be able to pay staff more and reduce fee increases to parents if they did not have to pay unfair business rates, says National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).
Read moreMany more nurseries have closed during the summer term than previously, setting course for a disastrous year for early years settings, says National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).
Read moreNearly half of councils in Scotland (47%) have yet to make a decision on the hourly rates they will pay to early learning and childcare (ELC) providers from next week, according to information provided to National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).
Read moreStaff and practitioners made a triumphant return to NDNA’s annual awards to celebrate their achievements in glitzy ceremony at the Chesford Grange Hotel in Kenilworth.
Read moreScottish private and independent nurseries are delivering almost a third of the country’s funded childcare places but councils are only allocating about a fifth of their budgets to pay for this.
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