Children: Day Care

(asked on 30th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 109339, on children: day care, what the timetable is for publication of the independent evaluation.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 2nd November 2017

The department will carry out an independent evaluation of 30 hours’ free childcare during the first two terms of national rollout.

We currently have an invitation to tender issued which will close on Thursday 2 November. We will review the bids and appoint an independent contractor to undertake the year one evaluation of 30 hours before the end of the year.

Following a scoping exercise the planned timetable for publication of the evaluation will be:

  • Research fieldwork: January – May 2018
  • Report publication: by 1 September 2018.

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