In new guidance published today, the Department for Education advises local authorities to fund providers “at broadly the levels they would have expected to see in the 2020 autumn term had there been no coronavirus outbreak”.
Providers who have been forced to close on public health grounds - either because of an outbreak at a setting or in the event of a local lockdown - should also be funded at the same level, DfE guidance states.
Those who have closed on grounds other than public health grounds “should not be funded”, it adds.
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