The Department for Education has announced £100m in capital funding is being made available to support childcare settings to expand their provision, along with regulatory changes to the EYFS.
£100m in capital funding is being made available for local areas to support childcare settings to expand their provision, ahead of the 30 hours extension, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced today (27 October).
The response to the recent early years foundation stage (EYFS) consultation was also published by the DfE today.
Within the announcements made by the education secretary Gillian Keegan, the childminder start-up grant scheme was confirmed to open for applications by Thursday 30 November 2023. This grant of £600 for those who choose to register with Ofsted and £1,200 for those who choose to register with a childminder agency ‘will help to boost the numbers of childminders working to offer parents more flexible childcare’, the DfE said.
