Nursery World - Wales puts 30 hour childcare on hold to pay for key worker children

The Welsh Government is launching a coronavirus childcare assistance scheme to support Wales’ critical workers, and suspending the childcare offer for Wales for three months.

Key worker parents in Wales will have their childcare paid for under the coronavirus childcare assistance scheme

The existing 30-hour offer for working parents of three- and four-year-olds will be suspended for three months and replaced with the scheme.

Under the new plans, councils will be able to use funding from the Welsh Government’s childcare offer to support registered childcare providers to care for pre-school-aged children of critical workers and vulnerable children.

The changes will cover the next three months and provide care for under-fives.

The Welsh Government said it would continue to pay childcare providers for the hours of childcare already booked under the childcare offer for three months.

Deputy minister for health and social care Julie Morgan, said, ‘It’s of paramount importance that parents who are critical workers - those on our frontline - do not face barriers in the fight against coronavirus.

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