The government's review of the cost of providing childcare received more than 2,000 responses from the early years sector. Yet when the Department for Education published its initial findings this month, it concluded it was "unable to understand" what the true cost is.
The piece of work, led by the DfE and management consultants Deloitte, was committed to by Prime Minister David Cameron in the run-up to the general election as a way of addressing early years providers' concerns that free early education for threeand four-year-olds is significantly underfunded.
The Prime Minister pledged to raise the rate paid to providers for delivering the free entitlement, and the funding review is the government's first step in doing that. It is also a key component in Conservatives' plans to double the free entitlement from 15 to 30 hours a week from 2017 in an effort to help more people into employment.
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