Children: Day Care

(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral Answer from the Minister for Children and Families of 6 November 2017, on free childcare, what proportion of early years providers (a) can provide and (b) are outliers who are unable to deliver 30 hours of free childcare on Government funding.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 13th November 2017

Providers can choose whether or not to provide 30 hours of free childcare. Our independent evaluation of the early rollout programme found that 83% of providers who previously delivered the free entitlements were willing and able to offer 30 hours’ places. The full report can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/642007/Evaluation_of_early_rollout_of_30-hours_free_childcare.pdf.

Where providers feel unable to deliver 30 hours of free childcare on government funding, I invite them to consider sharing with me, if they feel able to do so, detailed financial information on their costs and revenues, so that I can understand their concerns in more detail.

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