Dr. Anne-Marie Brooks:

Core funding is a grant to services. Therefore, the funding was allocated to services and they had flexibility in how they use that allocation. For example, if services were already paying staff at the minimum rates of pay that were negotiated through the independent joint labour committee, they could use their core funding allocation for other things within a prescribed list, so long as it was working towards improving children’s experiences and improving the quality of care. They had an allocation of funding and it could be used flexibly. I think there was a list of what it could be used for.