Children: Day Care

(asked on 25th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2019 to Question 281567 on Children: Day Care, to which constituencies the £9.1 million was allocated.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 30th September 2019

This year, the Department invested £9.1 million to set up local Holiday Activity and Food coordinating organisations in 11 local authority areas. They were responsible for funding and overseeing free holiday clubs so that disadvantaged children in these areas could benefit from high quality provision during the summer holiday. This was a considerable increase from the £2 million that was awarded in 2018. The Department continues to build on its understanding of how free provision can be coordinated and on information about what works in supporting this sector.

The attached table shows the list of constituencies that benefitted from the Department’s funding through the summer 2019 Holiday Activities and Food programme.

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