Nursery World - Non-maintained settings in Wales to benefit from post-Covid education recovery plan

Welsh education and early years settings are to benefit from an extra £19m in funding to ensure children continue their learning progress following disruption during the pandemic, the Welsh Government has announced

Schools and non-maintained settings will be funded with £13m to support learning and wellbeing.

The funding is to be used to focus on the wellbeing of children and staff. It brings spending on learning for under-18s in Wales to more than £150m since the start of the pandemic.

A sum of £13m will be for additional support for early years learners, in both schools and non-maintained settings. The funding will go towards increased practitioner-to-learner ratios in schools and educational support for non-maintained settings to help deliver supported, active play and experiential learning.

An extra £6 million will be allocated to schools to support teaching staff, promote wellbeing and progression and expand on the positive changes already made to ways of working.

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