National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has discovered that at least £55 million of early years funding was either left unspent or allocated against other budget pressures in 2020/21 by local authorities.
A huge proportion of this sat in designated schools grant reserves.
This was for the financial year during the worst of the Covid pandemic from April 2020 to March 2021 when three...
Multi-million pound investment to create more Family Hubs across the country, building on a manifesto commitment
From: Department for Education and Vicky Ford MP
Published 19 August 2021
Thousands of vulnerable or low-income families in England will benefit from a multi-million-pound investment to improve access to early education, health and care services....
