Arran’s MSP Kenneth Gibson has welcomed the SNP government’s allocation of just less than £26 million to North Ayrshire Council as its share of £1,043 million to local authorities across Scotland to support the expansion in entitlement to 1,140 hours of free childcare per year from August 2020.
This will almost double current provision and triple that inherited by the SNP on coming to office in 2007.
Councils will receive additional annual revenue funding of £567m and capital funding of £476m from this year to 2021-22.