Funding information
Tax free childcare payments
Find out how you can receive tax-free childcare payments from your customers, as well as information about funded childcare places, on the Childcare Choices website.
Early years funding
Access the provider portal to update your details, enter headcount funding information and sufficiency data:
Working in childcare
Childminders
Find out about becoming a childminder in North Yorkshire.
New childminders can apply for a childminder start-up grant.
Early years qualifications and job opportunities
For information on starting a career in childcare and getting approved qualifications visit the Early Years Careers GOV.UK website.
Childcare market and sufficiency assessments
North Yorkshire Council's services for young children produce a childcare market sufficiency assessment each year.
This report shows how we are meeting our statutory duty to secure sufficient childcare, and identifies areas in North Yorkshire which may have a shortage in childcare places. The report also provides the following information about changes in the childcare market:
- different types of childcare available
- new provisions
- closed provisions
- proposed developments
- key local information that could affect the childcare market
- early years education take up
Our sufficiency team will support providers to develop provision/ offer additional places where demand is identified.
Contact us for further information about the sufficiency assessment reports.
Further information
You can find information for early years and childcare providers here.