Nursery World - Nursery Management: 30 Hours: Funding Rates

The way that councils are setting rates for 30 hours funding varies widely across the country. Jo Parkes assesses some big differences in approach

From £8.98 in Camden to £4.30 in Shropshire, councils are getting some very different hourly amounts of Government 30 hours funding under the new Early Years National Funding Formula.

Since the announcement in December, town halls across the country have been busy numbercrunching and consulting, ready to publish the final figures before the deadline of 5 April. So now much of the data is out, how do the councils’ approaches compare?

As expected, the central Government rates are translating into very different provider rates, designed to reflect local factors (see box).

Some rises are in areas where hourly rates were historically rock bottom, but remain under £4 (see Shropshire, at £3.90 before supplements).

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