Following the ambitious announcement of extra funded early education and care for children and families in the Spring Budget, National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has found providers need urgent support with staffing and that all promised funding must reach the front-line, if they are to deliver this policy.
This is such a crucial time for providers that NDNA held two events in...
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...
“Right from the Start” is the theme of this year’s Healthy Body, Happy Me week, an annual March campaign run by National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) to support children’s health and wellbeing.
The week highlights the essential building blocks for children’s development and focusses on a different area each day to ensure practitioners are equipped with the knowledge and...
NDNA acknowledges the challenges for Covid-born babies National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has released a new webinar to give practitioners strategies to support babies and young children, whose wellbeing and development have been stunted by Covid-19.
Children born during the pandemic – just under 290,000 were born across the whole of the UK between March and July 2020 - have had their...
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...
Almost one in five Scottish local authorities will not be increasing their hourly early learning and childcare funding rates for three to five-year-olds once the 1140 hours policy is mandatory from August.
NDNA Scotland put out an FOI to all Scottish local authorities asking what they will be paying childcare providers for the 1140 hour places which must be in place from the autumn...
