Within the announcement, which has been made today by the education secretary Gilian Keegan, the Department for Education (DfE) has also confirmed applications for the childminder start-up grant of £600 for independent childminders and £1,200 for those who join childminder agencies, will open by Thursday 10 November.
Capital funding
The DfE says it anticipates the £100m capital funding, which will be distributed by local authorities to settings, will add thousands of new childcare places across the country.
The money is on top of £289m being made available to expand wrap-a-round care for primary school children, ‘plugging gaps in the existing provision’. Local authorities are due to receive details of their allocation of the fund today.
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