For the past 18 months I have been a representative of the private sector on early years working groups in two of the local authorities in which my day nurseries sit, to discuss the Early Years Single Funding Formula. I have spent between two and three hours at each meeting; the meetings were approximately every two months, more frequent as we drew nearer to April 2010.
The early years single funding formula was 'set fair'. We hoped to level the minefield of Nursery Education Grant, the payment for 2.5 hours per day, five days per week, 38 weeks per year, to all children the term after their third birthday. Hopefully the formula would remove the differences between maintained sector, day nurseries, childminders and pre-schools.
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