Childcare

Guidance and services

• Help paying for childcare
• Finding childcare
• Get 30 hours of childcare for 3 and 4 year olds
• Check if you're eligible for the Childcare Offer for Wales
• Parents sign in to your Childcare Offer for Wales account
• Parents get help with the Childcare Offer for Wales
• Providers sign in to your Childcare Offer for Wales account
• Register your childcare setting to get the Childcare Offer for Wales
• Providers get help with the Childcare Offer for Wales
• Childcare offer for Wales: guidance for local authorities
• Find childcare inspection reports
• Planning permission: childminding
• Food and nutrition guidance for childcare providers
• Childcare: statutory guidance for local authorities
• Childcare sufficiency assessment 2022: supplementary guidance for local authorities
• Qualification requirements for staff in registered childcare and daycare
• Apply for funding to train staff in early years, childcare and play
• National minimum standards and guidance: regulated childcare
• Talk with me: all Wales Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) training pathway tool
• Childcare and planning (CL-01-16)
• Refugees and childcare and play
• Funding to train staff in early years, childcare and play: leaflet for training providers
• Cost of living crisis: information for childcare and playwork settings
• Evaluation of the Parents, Childcare and Employment project: privacy notice
• Childcare Provider Grant: privacy notice
• Notice of new guidance relating to the National Minimum Standards for Regulated Childcare (WGC 005/21)
• Speech, language and communication: guidance
• Childcare and Early Years Capital Programme: guidance for local authorities
• Speech, Language and Communication outcomes
• Fire safety for childminding premises: how to stay safe

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Childcare Offer for Wales: national digital service assisted digital strategy
  Policy and strategy
• Childcare, play and early years workforce plan
  Policy and strategy
• Childcare Offer for Wales: impact assessments
  Impact assessment
• Childcare Funding (Wales) Bill impact assessments
  Collection
• Independent review of childcare services
  Report
• Child Minding and Day Care Exceptions (Wales) Order 2010: responses to the call for evidence
  Report
• The Approval of Home Childcare Providers (Wales) Scheme 2021
  Legislation
• Draft Child Minding and Day Care (Disqualification) (Wales) Regulations 2022: regulatory impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Draft Child Minding and Day Care (Disqualification) (Wales) Regulations 2022: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• National Minimum Standards for Regulated Childcare: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Childcare and playwork community mentors wanted
  Policy and strategy
• National Survey for Wales: children and education
  Collection
• National Survey for Wales: population health
  Collection
• Nanny scheme: impact assessments
  Collection
• Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care (ECPLC)
  Policy and strategy
• Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care plan: children’s rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Childcare, play and early years workforce plan: review and refresh
  Report
• Extension of childcare regulation: impact assessments
  Collection