Panders Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 "Free Early Year Entitlement - Base rate: Kent County Council are increasing the base rate of funding for all 3 and 4 year olds from £3.96 to £4.00 per hour from 1 April 2018. We are doing this at a time when the funding the Council receives from the Government remains frozen at last year’s rate of £4.48 per hour. The Council believes this increase is affordable through a combination of increased take up of the 30 Hours alongside a reduction to the amount the Council is allowed to retain to fund its statutory duties. We are committed to ensuring that the maximum amount of funding the Council receives for Early Years is passed onto providers and we will review this position regularly. " Just received this with some other information 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Yep - me too - my little black and white furry friend! Will have to work out if this will cover our rent increase - probably not - but hey every little bit helps! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 4 hours ago, Panders said: well i don't want to be a stirrer but according to the EYFF you should be getting £4.48 ...so nice of them to give you £4!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickyR Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Ours has gone down from £4.11 to £4.00 an hour based on our deprivation band being different last year to what it was in 2016. Gutted!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louby loo Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Ours isn't going up at all this year, but it did go up 39p last year and we get £4.21 We are very much left to 'get on with' though, not a lot of support from advisors etc, and we now have to pay to belong to this forum. We have just had to re-register and we can now have an advisory visit from LA - no visits for good or above settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouseketeer Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Ours has stayed at £4.19, not sure we have any advisors left 😐, on the plus side we do get 50% in advance and 50% half way through the term unlike some of the dreadful stories I’m reading about some other counties being well overdue with their payments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louby loo Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 14 hours ago, Mouseketeer said: Ours has stayed at £4.19, not sure we have any advisors left 😐, on the plus side we do get 50% in advance and 50% half way through the term unlike some of the dreadful stories I’m reading about some other counties being well overdue with their payments Have to say ours are pretty good too, we also have the 50/50 split- although there was a mention of doing it monthly at one point recently. Also (although I don't want to jinx it) we do not as of yet have to put actual attendances like some LA seem to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 in case any of you want it! https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-national-funding-formula-allocations-and-guidance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louby loo Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Ohww.. it seems we are getting a rise this year! 1p (still I know we are one of the better rates £4.22) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 20 minutes ago, louby loo said: Ohww.. it seems we are getting a rise this year! 1p (still I know we are one of the better rates £4.22) Well have you decided how to spend that 1p - I do hope you will think carefully about this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynned55 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 I cannot understand the figures given in that document at all. None of them relate to what we actually get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 35 minutes ago, lynned55 said: I cannot understand the figures given in that document at all. None of them relate to what we actually get! but it is what your LEA get. Your lea then take their cut and then they decide (with the help of the school forum) on how much to hold back and how much of the remainder you will be allocated.......well at least this is the way it appears to happen! happy to be told if i'm wrong! so to my mind that means our LEA take 34p per child per hour which equates to around 11.5k a year donation from us to the council a year! BTW can i just say sorry to the OP for the thread theif that i appear to have become again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 fm - that's my understanding too.........although for us it is 48p per child per hour............I haven't worked out how much that is per year because it would just make me far too cross In my humble this whole system is broken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 10 hours ago, sunnyday said: fm - that's my understanding too.........although for us it is 48p per child per hour............I haven't worked out how much that is per year because it would just make me far too cross In my humble this whole system is broken i would 'like' this but i don't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 9 hours ago, finleysmaid said: i would 'like' this but i don't! Absolutely understand that fm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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