The Education (Nursery Education and Early Years Development and Childcare Plans) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Regulation 6(3)

SCHEDULE Matters to be included in proposals for nursery education

Proposals for nursery education must:

(a) deal with children in the authority’s area who have not attained compulsory school age but who have attained the age prescribed by regulation 4 of these Regulations (“relevant children”);

(b) explain how local demand for nursery education for relevant children will be met;

(c) give an estimate of the number of nursery education places for relevant children available in each term of the year covered by the plan (whether at institutions maintained by the authority or at institutions not so maintained);

(d) contain a list of all those persons providing nursery education who are (or will be) receiving financial assistance from the authority in respect of such provision or who are under consideration for such financial assistance by the authority, and whose provision of nursery education is taken into account by the authority in formulating their plan; and

(e) provide evidence that the authority has considered what arrangements should be made for the provision of transport for the purpose of enabling relevant children to take advantage of the facilities for nursery education which are available, and set out the authority’s policies on the provision of transport to and from the premises of any institutions at which such education is provided.