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1521069

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date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of childcare provision in Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	61852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The department continues to monitor the sufficiency of childcare nationally. The key measure of sufficiency is whether the supply of available places is sufficient to meet the requirements of parents and children. Ofsted data currently shows that the number of places offered by providers on the Early Years Register has remained broadly stable at 1.3 million places since August 2015.</p><p>Officials from the department also discuss sufficiency of provision in regular conversations with local authorities. Under Section 6 of the Childcare Act 2006, local authorities are responsible for ensuring sufficient childcare places in their area. The department has not been made aware by any local authority of any current sufficiency problem. Durham Council, which holds the statutory duty to secure sufficient childcare in Easington, is not reporting that these closures will affect their ability to fulfil this duty.</p><p>According to findings from the 2021 childcare and early years providers survey, 7 in 10 group-based providers reported having spare places in their full day provision and 49% of childminders reported having spare capacity on average across the week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 25/10/2022 15:41:00 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1521070

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the level of affordability of childcare provision in Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	61853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>The department continues to look at ways to make childcare more affordable and to encourage families to use government-funded support they are entitled to.</p><p>The department collects data on the main characteristics of childcare and early years provision in England and fees data can be broken down to local authority level.</p><p>Easington constituency falls within Durham County Council, where the latest data shows the average hourly fee for childcare to be £5.00 for two-year-old children, and £4.75 for three and four-year-old children.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/10/2022 13:47:30 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1521072

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) nurseries and (b) other early years childcare settings which have closed in Easington constituency since March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	61854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>According to Ofsted records, as of 31 March 2022, 0 providers on non-domestic premises and 10 childminders had left the Early Years Register in Easington between March 2021 and March 2022. Over the same period, 1 provider on non-domestic premises and 1 childminder joined the Early Years Register in Easington.</p><p>Ofsted’s publication provides data on both joiners and leavers to the register, but not at a parliamentary constituency level, so this analysis is based on the differences in the Early Years register between March 2021 and March 2022.</p><p>The department has no plans to make a statement on the operating resilience of early years childcare providers in Easington constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 61855 question first answered 21/10/2022 11:33:55 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1521074

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will undertake a review of the operating resilience of early years childcare providers in Easington constituency; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	61855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>According to Ofsted records, as of 31 March 2022, 0 providers on non-domestic premises and 10 childminders had left the Early Years Register in Easington between March 2021 and March 2022. Over the same period, 1 provider on non-domestic premises and 1 childminder joined the Early Years Register in Easington.</p><p>Ofsted’s publication provides data on both joiners and leavers to the register, but not at a parliamentary constituency level, so this analysis is based on the differences in the Early Years register between March 2021 and March 2022.</p><p>The department has no plans to make a statement on the operating resilience of early years childcare providers in Easington constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 61854 question first answered 21/10/2022 11:33:55 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris