The Department for Education and Skills' Consultation on School, EarlyYears and 14-16 Funding 2008-11 looks at ways to bring the funding ofvoluntary, private and maintained early years services closertogether.
Proposals include: setting up a standard way of funding maintained,private and voluntary services; using the same method to count pupils inall sectors; and introducing a single formula at local level for fundingthe free childcare entitlement.
Purnima Tanuku, chief executive of the National Day NurseriesAssociation, who proposed such changes for the Children Now Manifesto(Children Now, 28 February-6 March), said the consultation was greatnews for the early years sector. But she urged the Government to issueinterim guidance on providing for next year's free entitlement, in orderthat enough money can be given out by councils.
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