More than 60 per cent of early years settings have a waiting list for the new funded two-year-old places, according to findings from a Nursery World survey.
Our snap survey on the 15-hour funded two-year-old places reveals the majority of those providers taking part in the scheme already have a waiting list for the two-year-old age group, less than a month after working parents became eligible for the offer.
Our responses show that this is largely due to a lack of space to expand and an inability to recruit sufficient staff.
This is despite the Government claiming one of the reasons why two-year-olds haven’t taken up a funded place is because parents have changed their mind about formal childcare, or were issued an eligibility code even when they didn’t need one (‘More than 51,600 two-year-olds without a funded place’, NW online, 19 April 2023).
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