The Department for Education said today that it would be updating official guidance to “set out how local authorities can use their free entitlement funding differently, redistributing it – in exceptional cases and in a clearly focussed and targeted way – in order to secure childcare for the children of critical workers and for vulnerable children, where their usual arrangements are no longer possible”.
Children’s Minister Vicky Ford said councils should ‘“use flexibility to redistribute entitlement funding in exceptional cases where other options have been exhausted, helping nurseries and other settings stay open and making sure enough childcare places are available.”
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