Crawford, Claire; Blanden, Jo; Drayton, Elaine; Farquharson, Christine; Jarvie, Megan; Paull, Gillian; (2020) Challenges for the childcare market: the implications of COVID-19 for childcare providers in England. Institute for Fiscal Studies: London, UK.

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The closures of childcare providers to most families during the COVID-19 crisis have underlined the importance of access to childcare, both to support paid work and to help shape young children’s environment. However, the crisis has had severe consequences for the finances of childcare providers, which were already weak in several parts of the sector going into the crisis. Despite a range of government support programmes, many providers lost income during lockdown. In the medium term, a longer-lasting fall in demand for childcare or an increase in costs related to social distancing could seriously hamper financial sustainability in the sector going forward. In this report, we assess the consequences of the pandemic – and the resulting public health response – for the finances of early years childcare providers.

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