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Ministers knew parents would face higher childcare costs amid lack of funding

Ministers knew parents would face higher childcare costs because of insufficient investment in the sector, an early years organisation has said. Government documents, obtained and released by the Early Years Alliance (EYA), recognise that introducing the 30-hours free childcare for three and four-year-olds in England was likely to result in price increases for families. The documents, which have been released after a lengthy Freedom of Information (FOI) dispute with the Department for Education (DfE), suggest that early years funding rates for 2020/21 were less than two-thirds of what Government officials estimated to be the true cost of “fully funding” the sector.

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