Children: Day Care
(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of foster children in England who are excluded from the entitlement to 15 additional hours of free childcare per week.
This question was answered on 27th November 2017
As of March 2017, there were 3,030 three and four year olds looked after in foster care and subsequently excluded from receiving the 15 additional hours of free childcare. However, we do not know how many children in foster care would access the additional hours if the eligibility criteria were applied to fostering households. No estimate has therefore been made.