Question follow-through · 69169
Extended Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Ofsted qualification requirements on the sustainability of rural after-school childcare providers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Ofsted qualification requirements on the sustainability of rural after-school childcare providers.
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2025
Answer published
The department has made no specific assessment of the impact of Ofsted qualification requirements on the sustainability of rural after school childcare providers. Before and after-school clubs can register with Ofsted on either or both the Early Years Reg...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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