As per the Department for Education’s Model Agreement, local authorities are meant to start paying funding monthly by September. The document states, ‘The local authority should pay all providers, particularly childminders, monthly by September 2018 unless a provider requests and the local authority agree to continue an existing alternative sustainable method of payment.’
Local authorities that are already paying funding monthly include Northamptonshire, Sunderland, Bedfordshire, Southampton and Wiltshire. Both Bedfordshire and Wiltshire councils said they had been paying monthly for some years.
Some providers being paid monthly said they were pleased above the move, including David Wright, owner of Paintpots Nurseries in Southampton.
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