Decision details

The Chief Officer, Learning Improvement is recommended to approve the breakdown of the Free Early Education Entitlement as follows:

For 3 & 4 Year Old funding - of the £4.81 per eligible child per hour allocated to Leeds City Council by the DfE:
• Universal base rate - £4.25 (increase of £0.05 from 2017/18)
• Deprivation supplement - £0.31 (no change)
• SEN inclusion fund - £0.05 (reduction of £0.01 from 2017/18)
• Centrally retained - £0.20 (reduction of £0.04 from 2017/18)

For 2 Year old funding: £5.10 per hour (increased by £0.05 from 2017/18)

In addition the Chief Officer, Learning Improvement is recommended to approve the changes to the contractual arrangements with providers as follows:
• Replace the current 80/20 termly payments to providers with monthly payments from September 2018
• Remove the 5% rule from provider contracts
• Remove the existing priority for maintained (school) nurseries to receive priority for funding payments where a parent splits their FEEE across providers