Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to provide more information on the roll-out of 30 hours free childcare for fostered children.

The department is working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster carers and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster carers to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children where it is right for the child.

We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018. More detail will be set out shortly.