Nursery World - Providers and parents win right to request out-of-school care

Childcare providers will have the right to ask schools to let them use their buildings to run out-of-school care on school sites, under plans announced by David Cameron.

Parents will also have the right to request breakfast, after-school and holiday club provision at their schools.

Although schools will not be obliged to offer wraparound care, if they refuse to grant a formal request for out-of-school care made by groups of parents they will have to give the reasons why.

Schools will be expected to respond to a request from groups of parents for breakfast and/or after-school childcare and consider either providing childcare themselves or using an external provider to run childcare on the school site.

The rule will apply to all state primary schools, academies and free schools. However, heads will not have to consider requests to run provision during the school day or when the site is being used for school-run clubs and activities.

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