MISTAKEN IDENTITY The pint-sized former childcare minister Sam Gyimah (now a Lib Dem MP) was mistaken at the Tory Party conference for a prominent, and considerably taller, member of his old team, who also happens to be of Ghanian heritage. According to Twitter, ‘A young Tory activist…went up to Kwasi Kwarteng and said “Sam! I thought you defected?” Oh dear.
FUNDING WINDFALL Councils are putting aside up to 10per cent of their early years budgets in ‘contingency funding’ – designed to fund more places if the population increases – but which should be returned to providers if unspent. Ian Morgan says he got a windfall of £7.5k from Wokingham Borough in unspent money. ‘I urge you to ask your Schools Forums what is this money being used for and if any unspent funds will be returned to providers,’ he said.
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