The early years organisation has criticised the data as ‘flimsy’ and says that it is ‘shameful’ that it took the Information Commissioner’s Office to step in before the research was published.
The Alliance sent several requests for the research to be published only to be rebuffed by the DfE, which claimed that the information was owned by Deloitte, which it had commissioned to do the work. The first FOI request was sent on 12 January 2016.
The Government carried out a six-month long review into the cost of childcare in 2015 to inform decisions about early years funding rates, ahead of the introduction of the early years national funding formula and the 30 hours of free childcare to three- and four-year-olds.
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