Nursery World - Nurseries and childminders gain right to ask to run school site provision

Childcare providers will be able to ask schools if they can use their premises to run before and after-school and holiday childcare when they are not using them.

The move draws on previously announced plans to give parents the right to request childcare before and after-school.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan has also announced a consultation calling for views from schools and childcare providers on how to make the plans work in practice, alongside draft advice for schools.

The Government wants parents to be able to work, or work longer hours should they want to, by making more childcare available during the week and in the school holidays.

Schools will be expected to respond to requests from childcare providers to use the school’s facilities.

The draft guidance sets out proposals for how the policy will work, and says that schools should take the lead in managing the ‘right to request’ process and governing bodies will take the final decision on what action to take.

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