Parents of children who will be between nine and 23 months old by 31 August can now apply to access 15 hours of funded childcare a week.
This is phase two of the government’s funded childcare rollout, which saw all eligible two-year-olds of working parents offered 15 hours of funded care per week in April. This will increase to 30 hours per week for children aged nine months and above from September 2025.
The DfE has said 211,027 two-year-olds are already benefitting from government-funded places.
Yet childcare leaders are questioning the expansion of the rollout to nine-month-olds, building on concerns they had in April regarding the success of the scheme.
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