Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 27296

Teachers: Childcare

Tabled: 29 January 2025
Answered: 6 February 2025

Question

Dave Robertson

LabourLichfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of classing trainee teachers as being in work for the purpose of claiming free childcare.

Answer

Janet Daby
The government is committed to delivering the expansion of the 30 hours free childcare offer, so that from September 2025 eligible working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week, over 38 weeks of the year, from when ...

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