However, the maximum funded session length will remain at ten hours a day to protect children’s wellbeing and support a positive early education experience.
The plans are part of a Government consultation looking at the practicalities of extending childcare to 30 hours for three- and four-year-olds from September 2017, which asks childcare providers to consider how they might offer places more flexibly to meet the needs of working parents.
There is also a proposal to remove the two-and- half hour minimum requirement outside the hours of 9am and 3.30pm, and to increase the minimum session length to three hours between 9am and 3.30pm.
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