The Children, Young People and Education Committee is undertaking an inquiry into the general principles of the Childcare Funding (Wales) Bill (the Bill).
The Bill gives the Welsh Ministers the power to provide funding for childcare for qualifying children of working parents and to make regulations about the arrangements for administering and operating such funding.
The Bill is intended to facilitate the delivery of a key commitment in the Welsh Labour manifesto Together for Wales (2016) , which is to provide 30 hours per week of government funded early education and childcare to the working parents of three and four year olds in Wales for up to 48 weeks per year (this is referred to in the Explanatory Memorandum accompanying the Bill as ‘the Offer’).