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Findings from a field experiment to understand the impact of free childcare on the mother’s business development and labour supply
Parents on Universal Credit can now receive up to £1,311 more a year in childcare support following a 6.7% boost coming into effect, as the government’s expansion of free childcare for working parents delivers 150,000 places in a week.
Requirements you must meet if you are a childminder and registered with Ofsted on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Childcare service.
Research looking at whether, on average, bigger childcare providers deliver childcare more cheaply.
Field experiment randomly offers mothers of young children a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, both or nothing
Find out how you can still register for childcare with Ofsted if you do not meet the requirements of being a childminder, nanny, nursery or other daycare.
More nursery and early years places and spaces to be delivered, with an online childcare eligibility checker to give information about new support.
Information for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.
Largest ever expansion of free childcare in England backed by fair funding for all age groups
These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.
Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing, Claire Coutinho, delivered a speech to the National Day Nurseries Association Conference (NDNA) 2023.
Includes registering as a childcare provider
Student Finance England (SFE) have made it easier for childcare providers to get Childcare Grant payments.
Findings from the 2021 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
Findings from the January 2019 to August 2019 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
Findings from the 2010 survey in the childcare and early years survey of parents series.
The government’s intention to extend free entitlement to childcare.
How Ofsted inspects childcare and early years, including the education inspection framework, deferring inspections and safeguarding.
Findings from the November 2012 to June 2013 survey in the childcare and early years survey of parents series.
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