Local Authority funding for Government-funded early years entitlement 2024/25

Financial year 2024/25
1. Did you have an underspend in the early years block for funded places at the end of the financial year 2024/25? Yes/no.
If yes, please give amount of underspend:

OR:

2. Did you have an overspend in the early years block for funded places at the end of the financial year 2024/25? Yes/no.
If yes please give amount of overspend:

3. What actions, if any, were agreed relating to this underspend or overspend?
• Offset deficit in schools block
• Offset deficit in high needs block
• Carried forward to 2025/26 budget
• Re-distributed to the early years providers
• Retained in reserves
• Overspend met from contingency
• Overspend to be addressed in future financial years
• No action has been agreed
• Other – please specify

4. Under the ‘Early years entitlements: local authority funding operational guide 2024 to 2025’, what was the average percentage pass-through rate for all eligible categories of funded places in 2024/25?

5. Did any eligible group receive a different pass-through rate?
Eg two-year-old children from disadvantaged families getting a pass-through rate higher than 95%

Teachers’ pay and teachers’ pension employer contributions (TP&P) in 2024/25
6. How did the local authority distribute the additional funding you received in respect of teachers’ pay and pensions?
• Equally distributed among all providers via the hourly rate
• Distributed to some providers based on numbers of teachers they employed
• Only distributed to specific types of provider – eg schools or maintained nursery schools
• Other method – please describe

Childcare Sufficiency Assessments
7. Has your most recent Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA) been published?
Please provide a copy or link

8. When did you last carry out a Childcare Sufficiency Assessment?
• Since 01 September 2024
• Between 01 September 2023 and 31 August 2024
• Prior to 31 August 2023