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Early Education & Childcare

Welcome to the Kent Early Years and Childcare Operations Unit web pages.

The Early Years and Childcare Operations Unit supports the expansion and improvement of services for children aged 0-14 (or 16 for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and children who are looked after) across Kent*.

Childcare Act 2006

With the introduction of the Childcare Act 2006 and the Government's Every Child Matters Agenda, there has been a great deal of development in services for children in recent years.

This development will continue.

Are you a parent/carer? Want to work with children? Already do?

If you are a parent or carer, currently work with or plan to work with children, or provide a service for children these pages will be of interest to you.

Use our childcare search facility to find childcare in, near or around Ashford, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Dartford, Deal, Dover, Faversham, Folkestone, Gravesend, Herne Bay, Hythe, Maidstone, Margate, New Romney, Ramsgate, Sandwich, Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Sittingbourne, Swanley, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Whitstable.

* Excluding Medway which is a run by its own council

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