Children: Day Care

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many eligibility codes for 30 hours free childcare have been (a) generated and (b) validated in (i) Manchester Withington constituency and (b) Manchester.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 29th January 2018

The department is committed to ensuring all parents who are eligible for the 30 hours free childcare entitlement are able to take up a place that suits their childcare needs. We have already provided significant support to local authorities and providers through our delivery contractor, ‘Childcare Works’, providing tailored support to help progress implementation plans.

In November 17, we also launched the ‘Delivery Support Fund’ to support local authorities, and enable them to support their providers,

On 19 December 2017, we published ’30 hours free childcare: autumn term 2017’. This showed that, in the first term of delivery, an estimated 1,094 children were in a 30 hours place in Manchester – this was 82% of those issued with a 30 hours eligibility code.

Furthermore, as of 8 January, 2,235 30 hours eligibility codes had been issued in Manchester for the spring term and 1,311 of these codes had been validated via the department’s eligibility checking system. This data was published in the management information release: ‘30 hours free childcare eligibility codes issued and validated: January 2018’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/30-hours-free-childcare-eligibility-codes-issued-and-validated.

We will continue to publish regular management information on the rollout of 30 hours free childcare at a national and local level.


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