childcare providers

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Around £55m of early years funding unspent as childcare providers struggled through Covid challenges  

National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has discovered that at least £55 million of early years funding was either left unspent or allocated against other budget pressures in 2020/21 by local authorities.

A huge proportion of this sat in designated schools grant reserves.

This was for the financial year during the worst of the Covid pandemic from April 2020 to March 2021 when three...

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Childcare providers no longer required to tell Ofsted about confirmed COVID-19 cases

From 21 February, childcare providers do not have to notify Ofsted of any COVID-19 cases at their setting, whether in staff or children.

From: Ofsted and Department for Education

Published 21 February 2022

The Department for Education has decided that from today (21 February 2022), if you are a childcare provider, you are no longer required to notify Ofsted, or the...

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