Children: Day Care
(asked on 13th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding per head has been allocated for childcare in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in the financial years (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
Funding for the free early years entitlements is allocated on a local authority basis. In 2016-17, the relevant hourly funding rates per child were as follows:
LAs | Three and Four Year old Entitilement | Two year old entitlement |
Barnsley | £3.99 | £4.85 |
Bradford | £5.19 | £4.85 |
Calderdale | £4.15 | £4.85 |
Doncaster | £3.87 | £4.85 |
East Riding of Yorkshire | £4.40 | £4.85 |
Kingston upon Hull City of | £4.20 | £4.85 |
Kirkless | £4.37 | £4.85 |
Leeds | £4.09 | £4.85 |
North East Lincolnshire | £3.72 | £4.85 |
North Lincolnshire | £4.39 | £4.85 |
North Yorkshire | £4.49 | £4.85 |
Rotherham | £4.07 | £4.85 |
Sheffield | £4.51 | £4.85 |
Wakefield | £4.14 | £4.85 |
York | £3.63 | £4.85 |
The figures given above relate to England. Childcare policy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is devolved. In 2016-17, the national average hourly funding rate paid by the Department for Education to local authorities in England, is £4.51 for three and four-year-olds and £5.09 for two-year-olds.
All funding rates for three and four-year-olds are exclusive of the Early Years Pupil Premium which is an additional funding stream for disadvantaged children.
The new funding rates under our proposed early years national funding formula from 2017-18, can be found here: