Children: Disability

(asked on 13th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 3 and 4 year olds receive the early years Disability Access Fund.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 16th March 2018

Local councils make Disability Access Fund (DAF) payments and are required to pay £615 to early years settings for each child that is taking-up the three- and four-year old free entitlement (not in reception) and receiving Disability Living Allowance.

The early years and schools censuses based on census day in January 2018 will provide us with data about the take-up of the DAF. The early years census is open to local authorities until mid-April therefore final data is not available.

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