However, as Sarah Teather exclusively reveals in her Nursery World column this week, the Government is continuing its commitment to funding graduate programmes in 2011-12, and EYP will continue to be delivered by the CWDC.
We do need to look behind the topline statements, of course, to see what it all means in practice. Money for EYPS and the New Leaders in Early Years Programmes will be channelled separately through CWDC, so there is a degree of ring-fencing here at least.
But Graduate Leader Fund money, along with other cash for workforce development, is bundled into the Early Intervention Grant, which will have no protection and will rely on local authorities recognising 'the strong evidence' for investing in this rather than the many other competing areas.
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