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Pre-school Education: Voluntary Contributions

Commons · Question 53404 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 2 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Zöe Franklin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling early years settings to accept voluntary financial contributions from parents to (a) support and (b) enrich learning.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 2 Jun 2025

It is the department’s ambition that all families have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, giving every child the best start in life and delivering on our Plan for Change.As the early years entitlements are expanded, ...