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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Day Care (18 December 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support providers of childcare who find themselves in financial difficulties.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

Answer

The department is making a record investment in childcare, by 2020 spending around £6 billion per year, investing £1 billion a year to deliver 30 hours of free childcare and increasing our hourly funding rates.

The department has awarded grants to the National Day Nurseries Association and the Professional Association of Childcare and Early Years to develop new business sustainability resources for childcare providers, which are available online at https://www.earlyyearsbusinesszone.org.uk/ and https://www.pacey.org.uk/business/ and has made a further package of support materials available, which can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-business-sustainability.


Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
22 December 2017

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