Issue - decisions

The Director of Children & Families approved 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 - £4.30 (increase of £0.05 from 2018/19)
• Deprivation supplement - £0.29 (reduction of £0.02 from 2018/19)
• SEN inclusion fund - £0.04 (reduction of £0.01 from 2018/19)
• Centrally retained - £0.20 (reduction of £0.02 from 2018/19)

For 2 Year old funding – of the £5.20 per eligible child per hour allocated to Leeds City Council by the DfE;

£5.20 per hour (increased by £0.10 from 2018/19)

In addition the Director of Children and Families approved the changes to the contractual arrangements with providers as follows:

• Align the payment and term dates to the academic year rather than the exisiting financial year arrangements
• Move the monthly payment dates from the 3^rd week of the month to the 1^st week of the month