With 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%.
Following intense lobbying by National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) and the early years sector in the wake of the Autumn Statement, the Government has agreed to invest an additional £20m into the...
Around nine in 10 nurseries and pre-schools in England are opposed to government plans to relax childcare ratios, with just 2% indicating that changes to ratio rules would result in them lowering fees for parents, a new survey conducted by leading early years organisation the Early Years Alliance has revealed.
Children and families minister Will Quince has confirmed that the...
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...
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is delighted to announce the launch of our new website which will better serve our nursery members and the early years sector.
The new website is set to go live from 1 March 2022 and will have lots of exciting new benefits.
As well as a new look, there will be an improved myNDNA area free for anyone who registers which will include a...
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has published its report Nurseries and the impact of closures in the first year of the pandemic which revealed that the number of nursery closures in England has increased by 35% during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic compared to the same period the previous year.
Throughout the pandemic, nurseries and childcare providers have supported...
