Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) wraparound and (b) holiday childcare services can remain open during the February half-term.

For the duration of the national lockdown, announced on 4 January 2020, wraparound childcare, holiday clubs, and out-of-school settings can continue to offer face-to-face provision for:

• children of critical workers, where it is reasonably necessary to support their parents or carers to work, seek work, attend a medical appointment, or undertake education or training; and
• vulnerable children and young people

This continues to remain the case during the February half-term holidays and schools can continue to open up or hire out their premises for use by wraparound childcare providers offering provision for the children of critical workers and/or vulnerable children. Early years settings have remained open to all children for the duration of the current national lockdown.