Children: Day Care

(asked on 16th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2018 to Question 121998, how many eligible children there are for 30 hours of funded childcare in (a) England, (b) each region of England and (c) each local authority area in England.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 19th January 2018

The government set out in the 2015 Spending Review that 390,000 children are expected to be eligible for 30 hours free childcare.

The number of eligible children will increase through the academic year as more children turn three.

We do not have a robust estimate of eligibility at a regional and local authority level. Local authorities have a statutory duty under section 7 of the Childcare Act 2006 to secure early education places free of charge for all eligible children and we expect local authorities to carry out analysis to understand local demand.

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