Expanded Childcare Offer (ECO)

The Government has recently announced national investment in childcare, including the expansion of childcare support for working parents to include children from 9 months old up to school age and changes to Universal Credit childcare payments. The changes will mean that by September 2025 working parents of all children over the age of nine months old will be entitled to 30 hours per week of funded childcare term time or 1140 hours stretched over a year.

Derby City Council consulted on proposals to change the age ranges and sizes of three nursery schools, Central Community Nursery School, Harrington Nursery School and Whitecross Nursery School, from September 2024.

Stage 1 Consultation - closed for comments

You can read the consultation document we consulted on between Monday, 22 April 2024 to Monday, 20 May 2024, which sets out the background to the ECO and our proposals for the three schools. This is now closed for comments.

Stage 2 Consultation - Statutory Notice - closed

Following Council Cabinet approval at the meeting on 12 June 2024 to agree the proposals to change the age range and size of three nursery schools the Council, in accordance with Statutory Guidance issued the Statutory Notice and Proposal Notice which sets out the background to the ECO for the three schools. This stage of the consultation closed on 23 July 2024.

Stage 3 - Publishing the non-key decision document

Following the statutory formal consultation process the Council is publishing the key-decision document for the ECO.

For more information please contact school.proposals@derby.gov.uk.