Published by Department for Education, July 2017
SUMMARY
The researchers surveyed 561 providers delivering the extended hours and 2,257 parents using the extended hours, as well as analysing early years and school census data and interviewing local authority policy leads.
The researchers found most providers cited positive reasons for delivering the extended hours such as wanting to support the policy (70 per cent) and because they saw it as a good business opportunity (43 per cent). However, 44 per cent said they felt parents would go elsewhere for the extended hours if they did not offer them at their setting. The majority of places - 55 per cent - were delivered by private providers, while 14 per cent were delivered by voluntary providers and 13 per cent were in nursery classes in maintained schools. Only seven per cent were delivered by childminders.
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