Merton Council


Childcare Survey 2023/24

Description: 

If you have a child or children aged 0 to 14 years (or 18 if your child has a special educational need or disability) then please complete this questionnaire by 15 January  2024.

The London Borough of Merton seeks to collect the views of parents and carers, on the availability of childcare within the borough.

For the purpose of this survey ‘childcare’ refers to formal childcare where an adult provides supervised care for a child. Often this provision is registered with Ofsted registered provision and is most used by working parents, for example a childminder, day nursery, pre-school, nursery classes breakfast clubs, after school clubs or holiday scheme.

Further support The Government is expanding their free early education and childcare entitlement for some working parents of children aged from 9 months until they start reception from 2024.  To find out more about this support please visit www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

To find out about the childcare available in Merton please visit www.merton.gov.uk/fsd 

We appreciate this suvey is lenghty, if you have any questions or  would like support to complete this for,  please email  fsd@merton.gov.uk  

Your views are important to us and we thank you for taking the time to complete this survey

Consultation start date 06 December 2023
Consultation end date 15 January 2024

For more information about this engagement, please contact:

Organisation
Consultation run by: Children, Schools & Families
Contact
Early Years