The future of early intervention is under threat. Following a series of revelations earlier this month, the Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed that the Early Intervention Grant will cease to exist in its current form from 2013.
Instead, the majority will be incorporated into mainstream local authority funding, while the DfE plans to retain £150m centrally in 2013/14 and 2014/15 for “future use in funding early intervention and children’s services”.
Money allocated to financing free nursery places for two-, three- and four-year-olds will be rolled into the Dedicated Schools Grant. This includes £534m in 2013/14 and £760m in 2014/15 to expand the free entitlement to disadvantaged two-year-olds – money some councils had hoped would be provided in addition to existing early intervention funding – not instead of.
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