With the autumn term under way, thousands of early years providers are already feeling the knock-on effect of the pandemic, as much lower numbers of children have returned or taken up new places.
As a result, many are receiving significantly less funding from their local authorities than this time last year, despite Government guidance published in the summer designed to protect providers from the financial impact of Covid-19. This states that providers should be funded at ‘broadly the levels’ they would have expected in the 2020 autumn term had there been no coronavirus outbreak.
Ministers confirmed in July that local authorities would receive early years funding for the autumn term on the basis of how many children were attending settings in their areas before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
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