Speaking at the National Day Nurseries Association’s 'Essential Nursery' conference in Peterborough today, education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss said that she wants an ‘open dialogue’ with the early years sector about early years settings’ core costs, such as staffing and premises.
She said that an economist at the DfE is working on developing a costing model to try and find out why early years funding does not cover costs and encouraged nurseries to share information with the Department.
Ms Truss said that the Government wanted to try and make the early years funding system more efficient.
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