Children: Day Care

(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assistance his Department has made available to Camden Council for expanding the number of free childcare places.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 7th February 2018

The department has supported the growth and creation of additional places to deliver the 30 hours entitlement and in 2016 ran a £100 million early years capital bid round, for which local authorities, in partnership with providers, were invited to submit bids. The department announced that over 350 projects across 123 local authorities were successful in this bid round. Brent being one of the local authorities who received capital funding. We have also provided significant support to local authorities and providers through our delivery contractor, ‘Childcare Works’, and in November 2017 we launched the Delivery Support Fund to support local authorities and enable them to support their providers.

‘Childcare Works’ regularly contact all Local authorities to assess sufficiency and readiness for 30 hours childcare and are providing a programme of tailored and universal support for councils, to help progress implementation plans, including Camden and Brent. Currently, Camden and Brent have reported no sufficiency issues for the spring term.


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