Childcare Offer applications are open for Spring term 2026

As of 22 October 2025, parents/carers can submit applications for children born between 1 September 2022 and 31 December 2022

Childcare funding can then start from 5 January 2026

To be eligible for the Offer, each parent must:

• Live in Wales
• Have a child aged 3 or 4 years old
• Earn less than £100,000 per year
• Be employed and earn at least, on average, the equivalent to working 16 hours a week at the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage
• Or be enrolled on either an undergraduate, postgraduate or further education course that is at least 10 weeks in length

Find out more on the Vale website and get started

Or contact us: 

• 03000 628 628
• childcareoffer@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk