A vote by members of the council’s Schools Forum on which cost saving measure/s it should take was postponed on Monday after providers made alternative suggestions.
Proposed measures include reducing the deprivation and quality supplements paid to providers, withdrawing the supplement for children with SEND, dropping nursery schools’ funding back to rates in line with grant funding or reducing central expenditure.
A further meeting of the Schools Forum is scheduled in a fortnight’s time, just days before the start of the new financial year.
A spokesman for Northamptonshire County Council, said, ‘At Monday’s School’s Forum we had a very productive conversation with early years providers where alternative suggestions were made around how such savings could be made.
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