Commentary on Sections Schedule 4: Childminder agencies: amendments Section 87: Discharge of authority’s duty to secure free early years provision
389.This section makes provision for regulations to be made about the discharge of the duty on local authorities to secure free early years provision for young children. Under such regulations, a requirement is imposed on local authorities to meet this duty by securing early years provision at any provider which meets the description in regulations, which meets the terms of funding, and where a parent of an eligible child wishes to send that child. Regulations may also be made specifying the conditions local authorities may and may not attach to the arrangements they make to discharge this duty.