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[lynned55]

Have just heard that our funding for next year wont change. Which is kind of a relief as I was dreading a cut in our per head grant. But no change and we also still get the additional deprivation fund, qualification extra ( so much extra for Managers that are L4/5 or 6) and each setting will still get £1300 admin grant, that is payable in the summer term.
So anyone else heard yet?

[Daisydoo]

I phoned our LA on Friday couldn't 'not know' for any longer! I was told ours won't be changing either - like you i was just relieved that it wasn't being reduced!

Edited by Daisydoo, 16 March 2011 - 08:07 PM.

[holly35]

Huge relief for us too that it is staying roughly the same. We will have a very slight increase to account for changes in our deprivation rate which takes into account the home addresses of our current children. Makes me wonder if we should actively advertise in less affluent areas!

[moo20]

We've known for some time, had about a year of consultations and voted on which supplements we wanted included!!! Our base rate stays the same which we have known from day one, we get a deprivation supplement based on demographics-how many post codes in each area our classed as 'deprived' and a flexibility supplement for how we have implemented the 15 hours! A quality supplement will kick in next year I believe and be based on the classification (RAG) ratings per setting. We had a full cost analysis over a year ago that was carried out in each setting and the figures are based on these.

Would like to know what other's get per head across the country as I sometimes think I'm missing something, the SFF works in our favour and am obviously aware of nurseries closing and pulling out, so, our base rate is £3.54, for us personally with supplements, we will recieve £3.72 per head, per hour. How does this compare? According to our cost analysis each child costs us £4.21 per hour, we have lots of stand alone places but overall we are not losing money.

[Cait]

Our base rate is £2.67 I think - can't find letter just now

[moo20]

Cait, on Mar 17 2011, 07:53, said:

Our base rate is £2.67 I think - can't find letter just now

Jeeez! I might have to stop moaning about our LA.

[thumperrabbit]

Ours is going down to £3.11 per hour

[louby loo]

Cait, on Mar 17 2011, 07:53, said:

Our base rate is £2.67 I think - can't find letter just now

...........yet the minimum wage for staff is still the same as the rest of the country!!

[Cait]

er, yep

[lynned55]

Well ours is 3.60 per hour, plus we get 6 or 8p per child deprivation fund depending on their postcode, which we cannot quite work out. We've even had children living in the same road but given different amounts. We also get £1300 admin fee per annum and a qualification supplement which is something like Managers qualified to L4 gets the setting £750, L5 £4k & L6 is £5/6k.

[HappyMaz]

Mine is £4.03 an hour, including quality enhancement for having EYPS and all staff qualified to Level 3. No deprivation supplement because we have no children that qualify.

No idea whether there will be anything to replace Graduate Leadership Fund.

[laura]

I had an email yesterday £3.52 for Lincolnshire, from what I can tell there are no supplements for having a graduate leader or outstanding RAG or OFSTED which is what I thought was originally going to happen. Is that what fellow Lincolnshire peeps are understanding too.
I liked the bit where it said in my letter that they would like settings to be graduate led where the graduate is supernumeracy and there are 3 other staff to 24 children. How can I afford that then!?

[lynned55]

laura, on Mar 17 2011, 19:17, said:

I liked the bit where it said in my letter that they would like settings to be graduate led where the graduate is supernumeracy and there are 3 other staff to 24 children. How can I afford that then!?

Quite the little comedians aren't they? Being led by a supernumeracy graduate made me laugh anyway

[SazzJ]

Did you's get letters or emails? We've not heard - Newcastle

[holly35]

Our quality supplement is on hold for now as the authority is doing it's best to keep funding the same. Our Graduate Leader Fund isn't being replaced with anything but the authority is keeping our children's centres operating on pretty much the same basis as now I believe. It does mean that I am losing my job as a supernumerary graduate leader, well as anything actually, but we (the setting) had been viewing that as a luxury anyway.