Today is census day – a triannual event in which all school-based nurseries and private, voluntary and independent settings must return data on the number of children for whom they want to claim early years entitlement funding for the next school term.
In previous censuses, the DfE based future funding levels for 15- and 30-hours of funded places on the number of children on-roll at a setting.
However, in the current lockdown the department changed its requirement stating that providers could only make a claim for a child who was currently being offered a place, and therefore provision had to be open to enable that place to be available.
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