Children: Day Care

(asked on 18th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made for children aged (a) 0-two, (b) two to four and (c) four or over, of the proportion of (i) children receiving some childcare from their grandparents and (ii) grandparents providing some childcare for their grandchildren, in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 25th March 2022

Information on the proportion of children receiving childcare from grandparents is collected in the annual childcare and early years survey of parents. Data from each of the past ten years can be found in the attached table.

In surveys taking place up to 2018, interviews were conducted with parents of children aged 0 to 14-years-old. For the 2019 survey, interviews were conducted with parents of children aged 0 to 4-years-old.

The 2020 survey did not take place because the COVID-19 outbreak restricted the survey methodology, as it is conducted using face-to-face interviews. Fieldwork for the 2021 childcare and early years survey of parents is currently underway with parents of children aged 0 to 14-years-old. The latest published data is for the 2019 survey.

The department does not hold information on the proportion of grandparents providing childcare.

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