Pre-school Education: Finance

(asked on 11th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the adequacy of the early years funding formula in the next 12 months.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 16th October 2017

We introduced our new funding formula in April 2017, and implemented 30 hours of free childcare across the country in September following successful early implementation. We have been clear that getting the funding right is critical to successful delivery of this new entitlement and are monitoring carefully its implementation. We have also committed to keep under review the data underpinning the early years national funding formula.

We will continue to use census data collections and market surveys to monitor and evaluate the childcare market, conduct longitudinal research through the Study of Early Education and Development (SEED), and undertake our long-standing, nationally representative surveys of providers and parents. We will use these to assess the impact of the free entitlement from both providers’ and parents’ perspectives.

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