Issue - decisions

1.    To approve the release of funding from the Early Years block to provide Randolph Beresford with an additional £733,333 for the 2021/22 financial year including the summer term 2022. This will fund the high-quality targeted childcare offer currently being delivered at the nursery to the end of the academic year 2021/22.

2.    To approve the underwriting of the Summer 2022 funding for the Maintained Nursery Supplement Grant by the 2022/23 Early Years block of the Dedicated Schools Grant in the event that the Department for Education notify in the Autumn term 2021 that this grant funding is discontinued, at a total estimated cost of £283,400 based on January 2020 census.