As providers increasingly move to charging parents of disadvantaged two-year-olds for ‘extras’, one local authority body has recommended settings refrain from doing so.
The unitary local authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council decided to issue the advice after some providers last month said that while they had no option but to charge for additional services for funded places in general, they aimed to waive or reduce charges for disadvantaged families, to help to reduce barriers to accessing a place.
Government guidance says providers can ask parents of funded children, for both universal and targeted places, for additional money to cover anything outside of childcare, such as meals and consumables, but a place cannot be dependent on a parent agreeing to pay.
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