The NDNA sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to all local authorities in England asking how they have used the fund, which was announced by the previous Government to support providers to expand their premises to meet demand for the expanded offer and provide more wraparound provision for primary pupils.
Of the 114 local authorities that responded to the NDNA’s FOI, 82.5 per cent had not yet distributed any of the funding they had received.
It comes as the education secretary Bridget Phillipson admitted that the final phase of the expanded offer next year won’t be the ‘sunlit uplands promised by the Tories’.
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