Speaking at the Nursery World Business Summit, Sam Gyimah, minister for childcare and education, said the Government was launching a ‘new benchmarking tool’ in response to establish how funding was distributed.
He said, ‘You said that the funding you are getting isn’t enough. We are establishing a benchmarking tool to how funding for two-, three- and four-year-olds is distributed across the country.
‘It should be more detailed at the local authority level. There should be more transparency about where this money goes.’
The tool is likely to be a more detailed version of the existing tool, which has been criticised as inaccurate. This one will show how much each local authority is providing in funding as well as how much councils keep for other educational services such as school support.
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