During a hearing by the House of Lords committee on affordable childcare, Liz Green, deputy chair of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) children and young people board, said that some councils are not receiving sufficient funding to deliver the government’s flagship free childcare entitlements for two-, three-, and four-year-olds.
“A lot of the funding is historically based on the school system, which means that some authorities receive a higher per capita per pupil amount of money than another local authority with similar catchment,” she said.
“The LGA knows of councils where it [the funding] clearly is not sufficient for their needs and for them to be able to provide it.”
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