Higher-quality early years education does not involve ‘substantially higher cost’, according to new research commissioned by the DfE, which also found that maintained provision has higher delivery costs than the PVI sector.
The findings come from a report on cost and funding of early education, published as part of the DfE’s eight-year Study of Early Education and Development (SEED).
Co-author Dr Gillian Paull from Frontier Economics, which carried out the research, said, ‘This report uses newly collected data from all types of childcare and early years providers to undertake a robust analysis of the relationships between costs and a broad range of setting and local characteristics, seeking both to contribute to discussions around free entitlement funding and to provide cost data for an analysis of the value for money of the policy.
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