Child Minding: Finance

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Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing registered childminders to receive Government funding for providing care to a child who is related to them but does not live with them.


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Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 25th June 2018

Childminders, including grandparents who are childminders, cannot receive early years funding, including the new 30 hours’ entitlement, for related children. This is set out in Sections 18(4) and 20 of the Childcare Act 2006: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/contents.

This long-standing position avoids creating an incentive for adults to register to become formal carers for related children they are already looking after on an informal basis.

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