Nursery World - DfE releases more early years guidance on funding and claiming for furloughed staff

The Department for Education has published guidance on how it expects local authorities to re-distribute funding among early years providers to ensure there are enough places for children of key workers and vulnerable children during the coronavirus outbreak.

The new guidance sets out how local authorities are able to redistribute early years funding during the current crisis if they need to.

The guidance for local authorities and early years providers, states that local authorities should only redistribute early years DSG funding if absolutely necessary to fund provision for children who are eligible for free early education and care under one of the free early education entitlements.

This is intended to ensure that those families are able to continue accessing their entitlement to free childcare during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

The guidance sets out the priorities the Government wants local authorities to consider in using their DSG funding to provide free early education entitlement childcare places for eligible children during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

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