In his presentation at Nursery World's Two-year-olds conference, James Hempsall, director of Hempsall’s, reported that currently 70,000 to 75,000 funded children’s places have been created.
Hempsall’s is working with Mott MacDonald to deliver Achieving Two Year Olds, a national support programme funded by the DfE, up to 2015, to support providers and local authorities with the roll-out. Capital funding of £100m is available through the Dedicated Schools Grant, to help support the programme up to 2014.
Mr Hempsall said, ‘All allocated places have been referred from a professional, and currently include 3,000 children who are looked after, 8,200 who have special educational needs and 14,000 from families with multiple problems. This gives an idea of the scale of disadvantage.’
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