Overview of the Act
4.The Act imposes a duty on the Welsh Ministers to fund childcare for the children of working parents, as long as the children and parents meet specific eligibility criteria. The Act also gives the Welsh Ministers power to make regulations to make arrangements for the establishment of a national application and eligibility checking system for the childcare funding scheme and will permit the making of provision to allow for the sharing of data between specified persons (for example, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and other UK Government Departments) to facilitate this.