Findings from our FOI investigation show that thousands of pre-existing discretionary early education places for disadvantaged pre-school children have been cut by councils due to funding rules associated with 30 hours.
Labour MP Lucy Powell, who sits on the Education Committee and has been shadow Education Secretary, raised Nursery World’s findings with the Education Secretary yesterday in Parliament.
She said, ‘Given the Government’s apparent commitment to social mobility, would it not be a good idea to introduce a social mobility impact assessment for all Government policies and budget plans?
'That way, we might avoid stories such as the one that appears today in Nursery World, which details how across the country 27 schemes targeted at the most disadvantaged children in the early years have had to be scrapped because of changes to the early years funding formula.’
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