Today the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed further increases to funding rates to deliver the expanded entitlement, and announced that parents who will be eligible for the first phase of the rollout will be able to apply for a funded place for their two-year-old from 2 January 2024.
Government urged to publish funding rates for extended 30 hours to give settings time to plan
The new rates are the amount of money local authorities will receive on average from April 2024, not providers.
While the DfE claims the rates ‘reflect the increase in the National Living Wage from next April’, many in the sector have argued that the new rate for three and four-year-olds continues to fall short of what is actually needed by providers.
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