{"id":17897,"date":"2025-05-08T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=17897"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:48:33","slug":"exciting-small-grants-opportunity-for-childcare-providers-creating-2-year-old-and-under-places-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/exciting-small-grants-opportunity-for-childcare-providers-creating-2-year-old-and-under-places-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting small grants opportunity for childcare providers creating 2 year old and under places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce the launch of our\u00a0<strong>Small Grants for New Places<\/strong>\u00a0initiative, designed to support childcare providers in creating new places for children aged 2 years and under in support the September 2025 Working Entitlement rollout of 30 hours for children from 9 months.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your services and make a significant impact on early childhood development in your community.<\/p>\n<p>The grant can be utilised to purchase additional resources and revenue that support the development of provision of places for children aged 2 years and under.<\/p>\n<p>We are particularly interested in supporting providers who are developing new places in areas where data has identified a shortfall in provision for children aged 2 years and under.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss out on this exciting opportunity to grow your services and contribute to the well-being of young children in your community. Apply now and be part of this limited initiative!<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to apply go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=gzehjWjLP0S7S5l_d_1b-5fhzqC1y41HhP1o0S4SqbdUM1I4N1RHOU0xTThHTjZSRlg2WDlSNTAxMS4u&amp;route=shorturl\" rel=\"noopener\">Application Form for Expansion of 2 year olds and under. May 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Closing date for applications is midnight on 25th May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss out on this exciting opportunity to grow your services and contribute to the well-being of young children in your community. Apply now and be part of this limited initiative! Closing date: 25 May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:13:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17899,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897\/revisions\/17899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}