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NEWS: Illustrative local authority funding rates for 2024/25 published for two-year-olds and under

PACEY

03 August 2023

The Department for Education have published the indicative local authority early years funding rates for 2024/25 for both two-year-olds and under-twos. It is important at this point to say they are illustrative and final rates will depend on the outcome of the ongoing early years funding formula consultation. 

The illustrative modelling suggests a national average funding rate for 2-year-olds of £8.17. Rates range from £6.89 to £11.86. 9-month to 2-year-old rates The illustrative modelling suggests a national average funding rate for the 9-month-old up to 2-year-old entitlement of £11.06. Rates for this age group range from £9.33 to £16.17.

New funding formula 2-year-old entitlements 2024 to 2025 illustrative hourly funding rates for consultation

    The Isles of Scilly and City of London have been excluded from these allocations as these local authorities will receive a central grant from the government which will include funding for early years.
   
   
   
Region
(alphabetical order)		 LA number LA name
(alphabetical order within region)		 2024-25 2-year-old illustrative rate
(£ / hr)
EAST MIDLANDS  831 Derby £8.04
EAST MIDLANDS  830 Derbyshire £7.41
EAST MIDLANDS  856 Leicester £7.91
EAST MIDLANDS  855 Leicestershire £7.17
EAST MIDLANDS  925 Lincolnshire £7.47
EAST MIDLANDS  940 North Northamptonshire £7.72
EAST MIDLANDS  892 Nottingham £8.27
EAST MIDLANDS  891 Nottinghamshire £7.52
EAST MIDLANDS  857 Rutland £6.89
EAST MIDLANDS  941 West Northamptonshire £7.70
EAST OF ENGLAND  822 Bedford £8.06
EAST OF ENGLAND  873 Cambridgeshire £8.02
EAST OF ENGLAND  823 Central Bedfordshire £7.66
EAST OF ENGLAND  881 Essex £7.82
EAST OF ENGLAND  919 Hertfordshire £8.61
EAST OF ENGLAND  821 Luton £8.28
EAST OF ENGLAND  926 Norfolk £7.64
EAST OF ENGLAND  874 Peterborough £8.40
EAST OF ENGLAND  882 Southend-on-Sea £7.87
EAST OF ENGLAND  935 Suffolk £7.57
EAST OF ENGLAND  883 Thurrock £8.30
INNER LONDON  202 Camden £11.63
INNER LONDON  204 Hackney £10.86
INNER LONDON  205 Hammersmith and Fulham £11.40
INNER LONDON  309 Haringey £9.73
INNER LONDON  206 Islington £11.09
INNER LONDON  207 Kensington and Chelsea £11.37
INNER LONDON  208 Lambeth £10.99
INNER LONDON  209 Lewisham £10.52
INNER LONDON  316 Newham £9.13
INNER LONDON  210 Southwark £10.90
INNER LONDON  211 Tower Hamlets £11.09
INNER LONDON  212 Wandsworth £11.00
INNER LONDON  213 Westminster £11.86
NORTH EAST  841 Darlington £7.73
NORTH EAST  840 Durham £7.57
NORTH EAST  390 Gateshead £7.58
NORTH EAST  805 Hartlepool £7.90
NORTH EAST  806 Middlesbrough £8.08
NORTH EAST  391 Newcastle upon Tyne £7.85
NORTH EAST  392 North Tyneside £7.45
NORTH EAST  929 Northumberland £7.37
NORTH EAST  807 Redcar and Cleveland £7.68
NORTH EAST  393 South Tyneside £7.66
NORTH EAST  808 Stockton-on-Tees £7.66
NORTH EAST  394 Sunderland £7.73
NORTH WEST  889 Blackburn with Darwen £7.75
NORTH WEST  890 Blackpool £7.86
NORTH WEST  350 Bolton £7.93
NORTH WEST  351 Bury £7.64
NORTH WEST  895 Cheshire East £7.37
NORTH WEST  896 Cheshire West and Chester £7.54
NORTH WEST  942 Cumberland £7.25
NORTH WEST  876 Halton £8.05
NORTH WEST  340 Knowsley £8.06
NORTH WEST  888 Lancashire £7.44
NORTH WEST  341 Liverpool £8.10
NORTH WEST  352 Manchester £8.37
NORTH WEST  353 Oldham £7.97
NORTH WEST  354 Rochdale £7.95
NORTH WEST  355 Salford £8.04
NORTH WEST  343 Sefton £7.49
NORTH WEST  342 St. Helens £8.01
NORTH WEST  356 Stockport £7.45
NORTH WEST  357 Tameside £7.86
NORTH WEST  358 Trafford £7.59
NORTH WEST  877 Warrington £7.63
NORTH WEST  943 Westmorland and Furness £7.09
NORTH WEST  359 Wigan £7.75
NORTH WEST  344 Wirral £7.78
OUTER LONDON  301 Barking and Dagenham £9.07
OUTER LONDON  302 Barnet £9.50
OUTER LONDON  303 Bexley £9.34
OUTER LONDON  304 Brent £9.47
OUTER LONDON  305 Bromley £9.30
OUTER LONDON  306 Croydon £10.06
OUTER LONDON  307 Ealing £9.60
OUTER LONDON  308 Enfield £9.66
OUTER LONDON  203 Greenwich £10.85
OUTER LONDON  310 Harrow £9.29
OUTER LONDON  311 Havering £8.76
OUTER LONDON  312 Hillingdon £9.38
OUTER LONDON  313 Hounslow £9.70
OUTER LONDON  314 Kingston upon Thames £9.56
OUTER LONDON  315 Merton £9.78
OUTER LONDON  317 Redbridge £8.95
OUTER LONDON  318 Richmond upon Thames £9.51
OUTER LONDON  319 Sutton £10.04
OUTER LONDON  320 Waltham Forest £8.89
SOUTH EAST  867 Bracknell Forest £9.53
SOUTH EAST  846 Brighton and Hove £9.22
SOUTH EAST  825 Buckinghamshire £8.65
SOUTH EAST  845 East Sussex £8.27
SOUTH EAST  850 Hampshire £8.23
SOUTH EAST  921 Isle of Wight £7.90
SOUTH EAST  886 Kent £7.97
SOUTH EAST  887 Medway £7.88
SOUTH EAST  826 Milton Keynes £8.47
SOUTH EAST  931 Oxfordshire £8.04
SOUTH EAST  851 Portsmouth £8.87
SOUTH EAST  870 Reading £9.66
SOUTH EAST  871 Slough £9.66
SOUTH EAST  852 Southampton £9.07
SOUTH EAST  936 Surrey £9.49
SOUTH EAST  869 West Berkshire £8.54
SOUTH EAST  938 West Sussex £8.66
SOUTH EAST  868 Windsor and Maidenhead £9.06
SOUTH EAST  872 Wokingham £8.92
SOUTH WEST  800 Bath and North East Somerset £7.79
SOUTH WEST  839 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £7.80
SOUTH WEST  801 Bristol City of £8.12
SOUTH WEST  908 Cornwall £7.40
SOUTH WEST  878 Devon £7.36
SOUTH WEST  838 Dorset £7.36
SOUTH WEST  916 Gloucestershire £7.50
SOUTH WEST  802 North Somerset £7.79
SOUTH WEST  879 Plymouth £7.94
SOUTH WEST  933 Somerset £7.39
SOUTH WEST  803 South Gloucestershire £7.85
SOUTH WEST  866 Swindon £7.95
SOUTH WEST  880 Torbay £8.04
SOUTH WEST  865 Wiltshire £7.35
WEST MIDLANDS  330 Birmingham £8.55
WEST MIDLANDS  331 Coventry £8.23
WEST MIDLANDS  332 Dudley £7.68
WEST MIDLANDS  884 Herefordshire £7.08
WEST MIDLANDS  333 Sandwell £8.37
WEST MIDLANDS  893 Shropshire £7.15
WEST MIDLANDS  334 Solihull £7.87
WEST MIDLANDS  860 Staffordshire £7.55
WEST MIDLANDS  861 Stoke-on-Trent £7.84
WEST MIDLANDS  894 Telford and Wrekin £7.65
WEST MIDLANDS  335 Walsall £8.00
WEST MIDLANDS  937 Warwickshire £7.74
WEST MIDLANDS  336 Wolverhampton £8.13
WEST MIDLANDS  885 Worcestershire £7.33
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  370 Barnsley £7.62
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  380 Bradford £7.93
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  381 Calderdale £7.53
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  371 Doncaster £7.78
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  811 East Riding of Yorkshire £7.26
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  810 Kingston upon Hull City of £7.77
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  382 Kirklees £7.55
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  383 Leeds £8.12
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  812 North East Lincolnshire £7.67
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  813 North Lincolnshire £7.44
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  815 North Yorkshire £7.35
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  372 Rotherham £7.80
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  373 Sheffield £7.85
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  384 Wakefield £7.80
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  816 York £7.46

New funding formula under 2s entitlement 2024 to 2025 illustrative hourly funding rates for consultation

    The Isles of Scilly and City of London have been excluded from these allocations as these local authorities will receive a central grant from the government which will include funding for early years.
   
   
   
Region
(alphabetical order)		 LA number LA name
(alphabetical order within region)		 2024-25 under 2s illustrative rate
(£ / hr)
EAST MIDLANDS  831 Derby £10.96
EAST MIDLANDS  830 Derbyshire £10.07
EAST MIDLANDS  856 Leicester £10.80
EAST MIDLANDS  855 Leicestershire £9.72
EAST MIDLANDS  925 Lincolnshire £10.16
EAST MIDLANDS  940 North Northamptonshire £10.50
EAST MIDLANDS  892 Nottingham £11.31
EAST MIDLANDS  891 Nottinghamshire £10.21
EAST MIDLANDS  857 Rutland £9.33
EAST MIDLANDS  941 West Northamptonshire £10.46
EAST OF ENGLAND  822 Bedford £10.96
EAST OF ENGLAND  873 Cambridgeshire £10.88
EAST OF ENGLAND  823 Central Bedfordshire £10.39
EAST OF ENGLAND  881 Essex £10.61
EAST OF ENGLAND  919 Hertfordshire £11.68
EAST OF ENGLAND  821 Luton £11.28
EAST OF ENGLAND  926 Norfolk £10.38
EAST OF ENGLAND  874 Peterborough £11.44
EAST OF ENGLAND  882 Southend-on-Sea £10.72
EAST OF ENGLAND  935 Suffolk £10.28
EAST OF ENGLAND  883 Thurrock £11.30
INNER LONDON  202 Camden £15.87
INNER LONDON  204 Hackney £14.83
INNER LONDON  205 Hammersmith and Fulham £15.54
INNER LONDON  309 Haringey £13.27
INNER LONDON  206 Islington £15.16
INNER LONDON  207 Kensington and Chelsea £15.49
INNER LONDON  208 Lambeth £15.00
INNER LONDON  209 Lewisham £14.34
INNER LONDON  316 Newham £12.45
INNER LONDON  210 Southwark £14.87
INNER LONDON  211 Tower Hamlets £15.17
INNER LONDON  212 Wandsworth £14.98
INNER LONDON  213 Westminster £16.17
NORTH EAST  841 Darlington £10.52
NORTH EAST  840 Durham £10.31
NORTH EAST  390 Gateshead £10.32
NORTH EAST  805 Hartlepool £10.78
NORTH EAST  806 Middlesbrough £11.04
NORTH EAST  391 Newcastle upon Tyne £10.72
NORTH EAST  392 North Tyneside £10.13
NORTH EAST  929 Northumberland £10.01
NORTH EAST  807 Redcar and Cleveland £10.47
NORTH EAST  393 South Tyneside £10.44
NORTH EAST  808 Stockton-on-Tees £10.43
NORTH EAST  394 Sunderland £10.53
NORTH WEST  889 Blackburn with Darwen £10.57
NORTH WEST  890 Blackpool £10.72
NORTH WEST  350 Bolton £10.81
NORTH WEST  351 Bury £10.40
NORTH WEST  895 Cheshire East £10.00
NORTH WEST  896 Cheshire West and Chester £10.24
NORTH WEST  942 Cumberland £9.84
NORTH WEST  876 Halton £10.98
NORTH WEST  340 Knowsley £11.01
NORTH WEST  888 Lancashire £10.11
NORTH WEST  341 Liverpool £11.06
NORTH WEST  352 Manchester £11.44
NORTH WEST  353 Oldham £10.87
NORTH WEST  354 Rochdale £10.84
NORTH WEST  355 Salford £10.96
NORTH WEST  343 Sefton £10.19
NORTH WEST  342 St. Helens £10.91
NORTH WEST  356 Stockport £10.11
NORTH WEST  357 Tameside £10.71
NORTH WEST  358 Trafford £10.30
NORTH WEST  877 Warrington £10.36
NORTH WEST  943 Westmorland and Furness £9.61
NORTH WEST  359 Wigan £10.54
NORTH WEST  344 Wirral £10.59
OUTER LONDON  301 Barking and Dagenham £12.38
OUTER LONDON  302 Barnet £12.92
OUTER LONDON  303 Bexley £12.70
OUTER LONDON  304 Brent £12.91
OUTER LONDON  305 Bromley £12.62
OUTER LONDON  306 Croydon £13.70
OUTER LONDON  307 Ealing £13.08
OUTER LONDON  308 Enfield £13.18
OUTER LONDON  203 Greenwich £14.78
OUTER LONDON  310 Harrow £12.63
OUTER LONDON  311 Havering £11.91
OUTER LONDON  312 Hillingdon £12.76
OUTER LONDON  313 Hounslow £13.22
OUTER LONDON  314 Kingston upon Thames £12.98
OUTER LONDON  315 Merton £13.30
OUTER LONDON  317 Redbridge £12.17
OUTER LONDON  318 Richmond upon Thames £12.90
OUTER LONDON  319 Sutton £13.64
OUTER LONDON  320 Waltham Forest £12.11
SOUTH EAST  867 Bracknell Forest £12.91
SOUTH EAST  846 Brighton and Hove £12.52
SOUTH EAST  825 Buckinghamshire £11.73
SOUTH EAST  845 East Sussex £11.24
SOUTH EAST  850 Hampshire £11.16
SOUTH EAST  921 Isle of Wight £10.74
SOUTH EAST  886 Kent £10.83
SOUTH EAST  887 Medway £10.72
SOUTH EAST  826 Milton Keynes £11.51
SOUTH EAST  931 Oxfordshire £10.90
SOUTH EAST  851 Portsmouth £12.08
SOUTH EAST  870 Reading £13.14
SOUTH EAST  871 Slough £13.14
SOUTH EAST  852 Southampton £12.36
SOUTH EAST  936 Surrey £12.87
SOUTH EAST  869 West Berkshire £11.57
SOUTH EAST  938 West Sussex £11.75
SOUTH EAST  868 Windsor and Maidenhead £12.27
SOUTH EAST  872 Wokingham £12.09
SOUTH WEST  800 Bath and North East Somerset £10.56
SOUTH WEST  839 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £10.60
SOUTH WEST  801 Bristol City of £11.06
SOUTH WEST  908 Cornwall £10.04
SOUTH WEST  878 Devon £9.97
SOUTH WEST  838 Dorset £9.98
SOUTH WEST  916 Gloucestershire £10.18
SOUTH WEST  802 North Somerset £10.58
SOUTH WEST  879 Plymouth £10.80
SOUTH WEST  933 Somerset £10.03
SOUTH WEST  803 South Gloucestershire £10.65
SOUTH WEST  866 Swindon £10.79
SOUTH WEST  880 Torbay £10.95
SOUTH WEST  865 Wiltshire £9.96
WEST MIDLANDS  330 Birmingham £11.69
WEST MIDLANDS  331 Coventry £11.22
WEST MIDLANDS  332 Dudley £10.46
WEST MIDLANDS  884 Herefordshire £9.60
WEST MIDLANDS  333 Sandwell £11.43
WEST MIDLANDS  893 Shropshire £9.69
WEST MIDLANDS  334 Solihull £10.70
WEST MIDLANDS  860 Staffordshire £10.25
WEST MIDLANDS  861 Stoke-on-Trent £10.71
WEST MIDLANDS  894 Telford and Wrekin £10.42
WEST MIDLANDS  335 Walsall £10.92
WEST MIDLANDS  937 Warwickshire £10.51
WEST MIDLANDS  336 Wolverhampton £11.10
WEST MIDLANDS  885 Worcestershire £9.95
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  370 Barnsley £10.38
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  380 Bradford £10.82
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  381 Calderdale £10.25
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  371 Doncaster £10.59
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  811 East Riding of Yorkshire £9.85
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  810 Kingston upon Hull City of £10.60
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  382 Kirklees £10.27
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  383 Leeds £11.05
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  812 North East Lincolnshire £10.45
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  813 North Lincolnshire £10.12
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  815 North Yorkshire £9.97
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  372 Rotherham £10.62
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  373 Sheffield £10.70
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  384 Wakefield £10.62
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER  816 York £10.12