Apr. 16 2025
Source Page: Childcare and Early Years capital programme: business case guidance 2025 to 2028Found: Objectives of the Childcare and Early Years Capital Programme ................. 6 2.2 Funding .....
Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Childcare delivers for parents too. - Speech Link
2: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) In March 2023, the previous Government announced £289 million for the national wraparound childcare funding - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Turning first to the question of funding, there has sadly been some misunderstanding about the funding - Speech Link
Found: Potential solutions include simplifying the funding for childcare from a parental perspective, increasing
Apr. 17 2025
Source Page: Childcare and Early Years capital programme: variation application formFound: CHILDCARE AND EARLY YEARS CAPITAL PROGRAMME FY2025-28 variation application Local Authority:
Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) We are ensuring that families in every community across the country can access affordable childcare places - Speech Link
Found: Commit to consolidating the different childcare funding streams into a single funding stream, and
Mentions:
1: None or education agency” if it—(a) has functions relating to the provision of childcare or education (or - Speech Link
2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) They are increasingly widespread and have an important role in the modern functioning of childcare. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Of course, there will be direct costs for schools and childcare agencies, in both time and money, and - Speech Link
4: None This is not to say that we should not up the way in which education and childcare is involved. - Speech Link
5: None Additionally, 13 local authorities have received DfE funding to embed family hub models. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Joel James (Welsh Conservative Party - None) And also, is that funding just a one-off funding, then? - Speech Link
2: Dawn Bowden (Welsh Labour - None) uplift in the childcare sector for the childcare offer, but at the same time, that was also supporting - Speech Link
3: Dawn Bowden (Welsh Labour - None) And the funding that ADSS and the WLGA are talking about was not this core funding. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None And thinking about the delivery of the single advice fund funding and additional funding around the discretionary - Speech Link
2: None One of them is the code of practice for funding the third sector. - Speech Link
3: None The cuts in the budget for childcare last year were due to lack of uptake. - Speech Link
Found: 1 Preamble 1.1 I would firstly like to highlight the difficulty in the Committee’s focus on ‘childcare