Nursery World - Childcare Counsel: furlough and funding

Andrew Manners, director, Morgan LaRoche, on furlough and funding

Andrew Manners

What does the latest guidance on the furlough scheme mean for how much I can claim?

The latest update to HMRC guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) imposes caveats on what early years settings can claim for. Providers can only access the CJRS now subject to certain conditions, and to cover the proportion of their paybill which would have been paid for from private income.

HMRC guidance, however, does acknowledge the CJRS scheme may be appropriate for ‘organisations which are not primarily funded by the Government and whose staff cannot be redeployed to assist with the coronavirus response’. The devil is always in the detail and further guidance is awaited from both the Treasury and DfE, but it could be argued that the 30 hours funding is meant to contribute to the entire cost of delivering childcare at the setting, i.e. not just staff wages.

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