Children: Day Care

(asked on 6th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Childcare survey 2018, published by the Family and Childcare Trust, if his Department will publish a response to that report; and if he will publish a response to the findings in that report that (a) the average price for 25 hours per week of nursery childcare has risen by 7 per cent since 2017, (b) 45 per cent of local authorities in England reported having enough childcare places for working parents to access their 30 hours entitlement and (c) the majority of local authorities do not have enough childcare available for (i) children needing after school care, (ii) parents working outside normal office hours and (iii) disabled children.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 14th March 2018

The Family and Childcare Trust (FCT)’s Childcare Survey 2018 shows that parents are now spending less of their wages on childcare as a result of the steps taken by the government. Local authorities are confident about the long-term future of the government’s childcare offer and the benefits that parents are already seeing from the 30 hours scheme. The department will continue to work with the FCT to understand the childcare issues affecting parents and to continue to remove barriers to taking up employment.

The results of the survey can be found here: https://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-survey-2018.

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