Care to Learn Scheme

(asked on 16th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to simplify the process of claiming financial support through Care to Learn.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th January 2020

Over recent years, demand for the Care to Learn scheme has fallen. The most significant reason for this fall in demand is the reduction in teenage pregnancy rates, which are now at an all-time low. There has also been a reduction in the number of young people in the population. The Government continues to make Care to Learn available to young parents in qualifying education, where they are aged under 20 at the start of their course and meet the scheme requirements.

When developing the Care to Learn application and payment systems, the Government must ensure that public funding is used appropriately. In developing the systems, the Government reviewed the data required to establish student eligibility and to pay childcare providers and designed the system to request only the minimum information to carry out these checks. The Government plans to keep the service under review and to ensure the process of claiming Care to Learn is as simple as possible.

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