Issue - meetings

RESOLVED to:

1)   Note the national early years funding rates for 2024-25;

2)   Note the changes in teachers’ pensions employer contribution grant and teacher pay additional grant funding arrangements and funding rates for 2024-25;

3)   Approve the changes to the Early Years Single Funding Formula allocations for 2024-25 as set out in section 4.4 of the report; and

4)   Note the central early years budgets approved by the Schools’ Forum.

Councillor A Dale introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, that asked Cabinet to note the Early Years settlement of the Dedicated Schools Grant and the related decisions of the Schools’ Forum, and to sought approval of the Early Years funding formula for 2024-25.

RESOLVED to:

1)   Note the national early years funding rates for 2024-25;

2)   Note the changes in teachers’ pensions employer contribution grant and teacher pay additional grant funding arrangements and funding rates for 2024-25;

3)   Approve the changes to the Early Years Single Funding Formula allocations for 2024-25 as set out in section 4.4 of the report; and

4)   Note the central early years budgets approved by the Schools’ Forum.