childcare
20 Nov 2023
New report warns of pending crisis in childcare sector
New research by the Early Education and Childcare coalition has found that a mass exodus of staff from the childcare sector could leave many people struggling to find places for...
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20 Mar 2023
RSN response to Spring Budget 23
The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP launched the Spring Budget 2023 last week in Parliament and the Rural Services Network has been exploring some of the headline announcements to see...
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01 Jun 2021
Call for information – difficulties caused by the pandemic to Early Years Education providers
NationalWorld (a company who cover the whole of the UK) have undertaken data analysis on Early Years Education providers during the first six months of the pandemic They have found...
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28 Sep 2020
Councils warn that a quarter of childcare providers could close in rural areas
Nursery World has reported on warnings from English councils that up to one in 10 childcare providers could close this winter, and that as many as one in four are...
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23 Mar 2020
Nursery Discount: COVID-19
On 18 March 2020, in response to the coronavirus, the government announced that many childcare providers would pay no business rates in 2020 to 2021 This guidance is provided to...
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11 Dec 2019
Childcare Provision
This analysis presents data on childcare provision and inspections using source data from Ofsted. The data shows the situation as at March in the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and as...
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