This report provides a review of the wider evidence to consider the impact of the small business rate relief scheme for childcare providers.
This is the latest release in the series: Review of business rate relief for registered childcare properties
Series information:
This report provides a review of evidence, including:
- local authority non-domestic rate (NDR) billing data
- Valuation Office Agency data
- data collected through Care Inspectorate Wales
- data collected through a Welsh Government survey of childcare providers on their income and expenditure
- findings from Welsh Government’s Call for Evidence via sector stakeholders
We can conclude that the sector is not in a strong economic position. Any potential increases in costs, including from an increase in liability for NDR, could have the following impacts:
- providers raising their fees, seeing increased burden on parents and potentially a decline in hours used, particularly for parents on low incomes
- relative declines in pay in the sector, possibly resulting in declining recruitment and retention
- acceleration of the decline in the number of approved registered services
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