Earlier this month, Leicester City Council began consulting with the 15 teachers employed in its children’s centres about making them redundant. The redundancies would take effect from 30 April 2019.
The council said that recent changes by the Government to early years funding rules means funding for its 15 children’s centre teachers will not be available beyond March 2019.
The council has been impacted by the rule that at least 95 per cent of childcare funding must be passed on to providers, the requirement to provide a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) fund and the need for a contingency fund to make up any ‘shortfalls’ in Government funding for 15 and 30-hour places.
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