Children: Day Care

(asked on 13th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the correlation between a child's socio-economic background and the extent to which they access in full the free childcare to which they are entitled; and if he will make a statement.


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Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 18th June 2018

The government notes the recent research conducted by the London School of Economics on this issue. In February 2018, the Department for Education commissioned its own research into the factors affecting take-up of free early education entitlements. A report will be published in due course.

The government introduced an entitlement to 15 hours of free childcare a week for disadvantaged two year olds in September 2013. Since then more than half a million two year olds have benefitted from a place and 71% of eligible children are taking advantage of the offer. We have also increased the hours of free childcare available to all three and four year olds.

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