SueFinanceManager Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Newsflash from the Foundation Years Team; The government has today announced a package of extra childcare support for families, including increasing tax-free childcare, introducing a £50m early years pupil premium and covering 85% of childcare costs for 300,000 of the most disadvantaged families. For full details see the Foundation Years newsflash here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Thanks Sue...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SamG Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Thanks Why is it I think that most of the money will go to schools and their nurseries instead of the rest of us!? Edited March 18, 2014 by SamG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmony1985 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yeah when it see the term "pupil premium", it makes me think of a school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumperrabbit Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Wonder if settings will get any of this by increasing our funding rates? she says ever hopeful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeytg Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Love your optimism thumperrabbit!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rea Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Love your optimism thumperrabbit!! So do I, but its making me laugh too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Autumn 2015! Could be a new Government in place by then - not holding my breath! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmum Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Thanks Why is it I think that most of the money will go to schools and their nurseries instead of the rest of us!? Sadly for me I can't see it - people paying for child care on top of the 15 hours seem to want more than school nurseries can offer. Sadly we're losing 1 session in Sept because we can't offer more tha 3 hours a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodlands1997 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I wish our funding would go up - last year it went down!!!!! Highly doubtful though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueJ Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Perhaps I have missed the point somewhere but don't we already have a compulsory deprivation supplement in the funding formula to support our most deprived children - I worry what sort of restrictions are going to be put on this early years pupil premium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 I'm not optimistic. The BBC commentator immediately said this is about 3 things i.e. a general election next year; appealing to female voters (apparently not many of us vote Conservative); and getting people back to work - sums it up in my opinion! I also read that the money for disadvantaged families was to provide training, to support recruitment and pay for speech and language therapy - not to support settings in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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