Childcare providers in Northamptonshire may be forced to get rid of staff, resources or reduce their own salaries if the county council goes ahead with plans to cut early years funding from April.
A fortnight ago, the council revealed proposals to withdraw the quality supplement paid to providers to deliver funded places and make reductions to the deprivation and high needs supplements in order to claw back the £1.8m it has overspent on early years in 2018-2019. Other proposals include reducing maintained nursery schools’ funding and/or central expenditure.
A vote by the Schools Forum on which cost-saving measures to take in the coming financial year was postponed by the council until Friday, 29 March after providers came up with alternative solutions, one of which is to withdraw or reduce the notional SEND supplement. A final decision will be made by the council’s director of children’s services, Walter McCulloch.
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