Nursery World - 30-hour offer reopens in Wales this month

Wales’ Childcare offer of 30 hours a week, which was suspended to new parents in April, will reopen for applications from mid-August.

Parent in Wales whose children became eligible for the 30 hours in the summer can apply from the middle of August

The Welsh Government suspended its extended three and four-year-old offer to new entrants to allow resources to be refocused to support the needs of critical workers and vulnerable children through the Coronavirus Childcare Assistance Scheme (C-SAS). As of the end of July, just over 9,000 children were accessing the scheme.

With the new school term starting next month, the offer will reopen for applications enabling families to start accessing the funded childcare, Wales’ deputy minister for health and social care Julie Morgan has announced.

Parents whose children would have been eligible for the 30 hours in the summer term, but who missed out on a full term because they had not started taking up the offer before the coronavirus pandemic, will be able to submit their applications from the middle of this month.

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