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Responses from Scottish local authorities to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request reveal an average rate of £5.26 will be paid to providers to deliver the 1,140 hours from April.
Wage increases, uncertainty over local authority payments for funded hours and the return of business rates, amid other costs, dampen the funding announcement. By Catherine Gaunt
Ministers plan to change the way that nurseries and childminders are funded through local authorities, in a move towards developing a new national funding formula for free early education places.
The speech and language charity I CAN is changing its name to reach more of the almost one in five children in the UK who have challenges with talking and understanding words.
Two influential reports give early years providers hope of improved funding.
Ahead of the next general election, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) is calling on the political parties to simplify the early years funding system and weight it ‘more heavily’ towards children...
The government is consulting on the funding arrangements for children with SEND and those who need alternative provision.
Parents of disabled children have rated local authority services as 'above average' in the first-ever national survey of parents' views on services for disabled children.
The Department for Education has launched a consultation on updating the early years funding formulae ‘to ensure the system is fair and transparent’.
The nursery group Imagine Co-operative Childcare is changing its name to The Co-operative Childcare to reinforce its commitment to the co-operative movement and its ethics and values.