Children: Day Care

(asked on 2nd February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to include single parents who are in full-time employment in the extension of free childcare to 30 hours per week.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 5th February 2016

Single parents will be able to access the extended entitlement in the same way as two parent households. A single parent will need to earn a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at national minimum wage or living wage. In addition, their income should not exceed £100,000. This will include employed and self-employed parents.

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