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The Welsh Government is stopping the ‘free’ childcare offer of up to 30 hours for new applicants to the scheme and will instead use the money to fund pre-school childcare for key workers’ children.
The Welsh Government has announced that it will offer free childcare to all pre-school children of key workers, including out of hours care.
It will do so by suspending the childcare offer of up to 30 hours for three and four year olds for those due to start it after the Easter holidays.
Vulnerable pre-school children will also have access to free childcare. The free childcare excludes childcare provider retention fees.
The Government says this is initially for a three-month period, at which time it will be reviewed. Parents of children who already access the childcare offer will not be affected.
More information can be found here.
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Comments [2]
John Stebbing says:
Why is this being rolled out only in Wales and not in the other countries of the UK? My wife and I are both key workers and have no choice to work and pay for nursery places. If we lived in Wales this would be free. I would suggest this would be a nice sign of appreciation.
Anonymous nhs worker says:
I completely agree and empathise with you. Myself and my partner are in the same situation. No one wants to help us, we have had to take mortgage breaks to help cover the costs so will be penalised with a higher mortgage payment afterwards, all for keeping working for nhs and no payrise. Not bitter at all. Our daughter has just turned 3 and has 30free hours from Sept but it would have been such a help if key workers could have claimed 30free hrs for any age child. Such a shame they have let us down when they promised whatever it takes.