Isle of MP Bob Seely has welcomed the news that childcare providers on the Isle of Wight will receive a funding boost.
It has been announced by the Government that childcare providers on the Isle of Wight will receive a 10.1% increase to their hourly childcare payments for children aged 3 – 4 and a 32.4% increase to the hourly rate for 2-year-olds.
The Government has set aside an initial investment of £204million that will be distributed through a new grant – the Early Years Supplementary Grant – to childcare providers via local authorities.
It will take the average rate paid for places for 3 and 4-year-olds from its current £5.29 per hour to £5.65 per hour, and take the average rate paid for places for 2-year-olds from its current £6.00 per hour to £7.95 per hour.
The Government is also extending the provision of 30 free hours of childcare a week to all working parents. Working parents of 2-year-olds can access 15 hours per week from April 2024 and from September 2024 all working parents of children aged nine months to 3-year-old can access 15 hours per week.
From September 2025 all working parents of children aged 9 months to 4-year-old can access 30 hours of free childcare per week.
Government reforms across the childcare sector include increasing the hourly rates paid to providers of free childcare to £204million next year, increasing to £288million by 2024-25, changing to 2-year-old ratios from 1:4 to 1:5 and allowing childminders to care for more than 3 children under 5 if some children are siblings, or their own child and introducing childminders grant to support childminders with start-up costs. Universal Credit childcare support will also be paid upfront rather than in arrears.
Welcoming the news, Mr Seely said:
“Supporting and expanding our childcare sector means more parents can return to work or progress in the workplace.
“The Isle of Wight Council will see their hourly payments increase for the children they look after. Providers will now receive 10.1 per cent more funding per hour for children aged between 3-4 years old and 32.4 per cent for children aged 2 years old.
“The government is rightly making sure more parents can rely on affordable childcare, allowing them to take up more work and help grow the economy.”
Very easy to spend tax payers money 32.4% increase where’s that coming from or is it a case of printing the money that Boris did during the plandemic that’s now landed us with 10/20% inflation
We all know it WONT be coming from those womb owners who are claiming thousands a year now from us taxpayers to pay for their lazy but lucrative lifestyle of having a child to gain a free roof, c.tax and a better income than most working people.
And many claim to be single, yet never sleep alone as by pretending to be a ‘single parent’ get away with only working 16hrs to gain thousands in tax credits, and totally free rent, and c.tax, whilst having a live in invisible lover to supply even more money to the household with few bills that we all have to pay.
Many deal or grow to.
Also none pay for prescriptions or dental care, nor school uniforms, dinners, trips or transport to school.
So they are better off in spending money than most other working people as you said.
And they have five days off a week to lazy around creating the next charity kept clone to keep the income flowing for longer.
OK. Lets put some truth into your lies, shall we?
Most children on the Isle of Wight are in families with at least one parent working full time.
None get free uniforms.
None get free bus travel unless they are in the school nearest to their home (and all kids get free bus travel if that is the case).
All children get free dental care.
As for “dealing”? Again, this is the minority. But, if you had your way benefits were stopped, they would be left with the choice of starving or turning to crime. Guess what they’d choose.
And, yes, yada-yada Sky TV, iPhones, designer nails. Heard it all before and its bull.
You know. I’m really not sure if you are serious or are some kind of comedy gammon parody.
Not spend it, ‘waste it’, these state sponging parents play the state to do next to nothing but claim everything.
Hence a shortage of workers as most of child bearing age, being 14 to late 40’s now, are using a child as a means of years of working just a few hours a week at best as they get their tax credits made up to a high level of income AND they then pay no rent, no c.tax and are able to claim more free food heating and health care, even free gym membership.
They don’t want to ‘work’ only a few hours to be able to claim the above and far more.
Our inflation is largely supply driven by price increases due to things like the war in Ukraine and Brexit. This is why interest rate hikes aren’t bringing it down. This is why our inflation is the 3rd highest in the G20 (only Turkey and Argentina are higher).
In fact, it is likely that interest rate hikes are actually driving inflation rather than helping. They are adding to the burden of working families already suffering from increases in food and energy costs and driving demands for increased pay.
The major skills shortage brought about by Brexit mean that businesses either have to cough up or lose their employee to competitors. Private sector pay has increased by nearly 9% compared to 5% in the public sector.
This isn’t the Boris Bus money, that went to his friends before and during covid
Typical Tory.
Stab us in the back voting for cuts then crow about the sticking plaster he’s giving us to make it better.
Slander! The Tories are here to save us from Labour. The NHS would have been destroyed if Liebour had its way!