Decision details

In April 2016, as part of its commitment to support providers in the delivery of the 30 hours extended entitlement, the Government announced it would be making £50m capital funding available for local authorities to submit funding bids for the creation of new childcare places.

In July 2016 the authority invited all eligible childcare providers in Lancashire to submit an application for funding.  Childminders were not eligible to apply.

The authority received notification at the end of December 2016 that the Education Funding Agency EFA) had awarded funding for two of the six projects submitted by Lancashire County Council totalling £1,466,130.  On 13th March 2017 the Deputy Leader of the County Council gave approval for this funding to be added to the 2017-2018 Children and Young People's block of the Capital Programme and distributed in line with legal agreements.

On 10th March the Government announced that a further round of funding was being made available and allocated an additional £50m to the Early Years Capital Programme.  The authority received notification that a further project previously submitted had successfully been awarded funding. 

This report is requesting approval to add the additional funding awarded in March 2017 to the 2017-2018 Children and Young People's block of the Capital Programme and to distribute it in line with legal agreements.

County Councillor David Borrow, the Deputy Leader of the County Council approved that:

(i)  The additional £120,000 Early Years Capital Grant Funding received from the Education Funding Agency be added to the 2017-2018 Children and Young People's block of the Capital Programme;

(ii)  The Early Years Capital Grant Funding is distributed in line with the legal agreements.