Children: Day Care

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether local authorities are permitted to change the funding rate paid to childcare providers for 30 hours of free childcare during a school year.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 1st March 2018

Local authorities are required to consult providers on annual changes to their local formula for the forthcoming financial year. Local authorities must calculate and notify initial budgets to providers by 31 March. Unless a disapplication is authorised by the Secretary of State, the formula cannot be changed after the financial year has started.

More detail is set out in the Early Years entitlements: local authority funding of providers: Operational Guide 2018 to 2019.

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