Children: Day Care

(asked on 19th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to make sufficient funding available to (a) Liverpool City Council and (b) Knowsley Metropolitan Council to ensure they are able to comply with the mandatory provision of 30 hours of free childcare for three and four-year-olds within those local authority areas.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 29th January 2018

By 2019-20, the government will be spending around £6 billion a year on childcare support, including £1 billion to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and pay the higher funding rates that we introduced in April 2017.

Our funding rates are based on evidence from our “Review of Childcare Costs”, which was described as “thorough and wide ranging” by the National Audit Office. Local authorities’ individual funding rates are set by the new early years national funding formula which takes account of relative children’s needs and costs of delivery.

Through ‘Childcare Works’, we are supporting all local authorities to deliver 30 hours of free childcare, and we are monitoring carefully its implementation.

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