The Early Years National Funding Formula and Maintained Nursery School funding consultation seeks views on proposed updates to the early years funding formulae, and maintained nursery school supplementary funding.
The early years national funding formula (EYNFF) was introduced in 2017 to set the hourly funding rates that each local authority is paid to deliver the universal and additional entitlements for three- and four-year-olds. There is a separate formula that sets the hourly funding rates for two-year-olds.
It has not been revised since then, and the government said that datasets used to reflect variations in cost across the country are not up to date.
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