Millions of pounds of unspent early years funding used to plug council deficits
Katy Morton
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
More than £63.5 million of Government money to deliver three- and four-year-old places was unspent by local authorities in 2018/19, with just 15 per cent of the funding returned to childcare providers, an FOI investigation has revealed.
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