The extension of the funding is to ensure the survival of nursery schools until the DfE comes up with a long-term solution – expected to be announced in the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review.
Labour's shadow minister for children and early years welcomed the £23 million in funding however urged ministers to come up with a long-term solution.
Funding to boost children's language
The children’s minister Vicky Ford has also announced today a multi-million pound package of funding to boost Reception children’s early language skills.
Schools are being urged to sign up to an early years‘catch-up’ programme, which is focused on raising outcomes in speaking and listening skills among young children whose education has been disrupted by Covid-19.
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