Fewer restrictions are to be placed on the delivery of the 30 free hours of childcare to better meet the needs of children, parents and providers.
In response to views from the sector, the Government is to extend the hours in which the extended free entitlement can be funded, remove the minimum session length and enable parents to ‘stretch’ their free childcare over the full year if they wish.
Details of the plans, which are set out in the Government’s response to its consultation on the policy, include:
• extending the hours in which the free entitlement can be funded from between 7am and 7pm to 6am and 8pm.
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