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Late night guidance suggests row back on furlough for childcare

On Friday night, the DfE produced the guidance on furlough and funded children.

A rather last-minute announcement when so many have prepared to upload their data onto the HMRC portal which will open on Monday. But stop and double check before you do anything.

Why? Because the guidance is both confusing and ambivalent. In a panic, I rang Juls Davies from EY Matters and asked that she invite many more onto our Saturday Zoom call in case I was misinterpreting the guidance. We were joined by Neil Leitch who had already issued the Early Years Alliance interpretation. He was also urging caution and suggesting we all double check in case we upload incorrect information. HMRC are not ones to accept ignorance or good faith as a mitigating factor for incorrect reporting and I suspect we will all be thoroughly audited post pandemic.

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