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We currently spend about £150 million to £190 million on backlog maintenance. Through to 2025-26 and 2026-27, we intend to double that figure beyond £300 million.
There is definitely improvement in relation to how meaningfully lived experience is incorporated and taken into account. In the latest round of reports, there is more acknowledgment of the importance of that.
The campaigning group fair funding for our kids estimates that the equivalent of 650 new nurseries would have to be built to accommodate the extra places that would be needed because of the First Minister’s latest pledge.