The early years sector is drawing comfort from the findings of two influential Parliamentary reports which highlight flaws in the Government's funding of the free entitlement for threeand four-year-olds.
For years, providers have argued that they are out of pocket because of the gap between the funding allocated for the delivery of nursery education and their actual costs.
Their concerns have been mounting with the Government's new policy to extend the scheme to cover the country's most disadvantaged two-year-olds. Although funding is increased for these children, so are the costs because of higher staff ratios and because the families frequently need more support from settings.
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