Parents desperately need this support and, as the early implementation pilots have demonstrated, a huge number of parents will want to take up this offer when it begins next September.
With the funding formula now published, providers are reflecting on whether they can or will offer the new entitlement. The funding levels remain a concern for many settings. Government has set out its stall and, inevitably, there will be winners and losers as this offer is rolled out. PACEY has been working alongside other sector organisations to try to get the best deal available for providers - in spite of Brexit and all the other jitters that would stop any government from promising much beyond the life of a parliament.
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