Children: Day Care
(asked on 10th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the hour funding rate was given to each of the eight early implementer areas (a) during the trial period for the 30 hours childcare entitlement and (b) following the rollout of that programme in September 2017.
As early implementation began prior to the introduction of the Early Years National Funding Formula (EYNFF), the eight early implementer local authorities were set interim funding rates for delivering the additional 15 hours.
The independent evaluation report of early implementation, published in July 2017, did not disclose the identities of the eight local authorities. To ensure the fidelity of the evaluation we have continued to anonymise them in this response.
The interim funding rates together with the EYNFF rates are as follows:
Local authority | Rate to LAs during early implementation | EYNFF rate 17/18 |
A | £4.88 | £5.38 |
B | £5.17 | £5.57 |
C | £4.01 | £4.30 |
D | £4.88 | £4.69 |
E | £4.14 | £4.30 |
F | £4.41 | £4.54 |
G | £3.88 | £4.30 |
H | £4.07 | £4.30 |
Further information on the early implementation evaluation report can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/30-hours-free-childcare-early-implementation-evaluation.
Please note there is an error in the report with local authority ‘A’ funding rate being reported as £4.84 instead of £4.88, we are rectifying this inaccuracy.