{"id":20198,"date":"2026-07-16T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=20198"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:36:08","slug":"early-years-education-and-childcare-market-study-competition-and-markets-authority-cma-call-for-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/early-years-education-and-childcare-market-study-competition-and-markets-authority-cma-call-for-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Early years education and childcare market study: Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) &#8211; Call for evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into the provision of early years education and childcare services. We want to understand how the sector is working for families and providers, and if it could work better.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re\u00a0looking\u00a0at\u00a0education and\u00a0childcare services\u00a0\u2013 such as childminders,\u00a0nurseries\u00a0and pre-schools\u00a0\u2013\u00a0for\u00a0children\u00a0from birth\u00a0until they start school\u00a0(at\u00a0age\u00a04 or 5).<\/p>\n<p>The CMA is seeking views from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people who are paying for childcare with government support to cover the cost, with your own money, or a mix of both \u2013 more information available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/calls-for-evidence\/early-years-education-and-childcare-market-study-families\" rel=\"noopener\">Early years education and childcare market study: families &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li>anyone involved in providing childcare services \u2013 more information available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/calls-for-evidence\/early-years-education-and-childcare-market-study-providers-and-professionals\" rel=\"noopener\">Early years education and childcare market study: providers and professionals &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li>stakeholders with an interest in early years education and childcare \u2013 more information available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/calls-for-evidence\/early-years-education-and-childcare-market-study-other-interested-people\" rel=\"noopener\">Early years education and childcare market study: other interested people &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All calls for evidence close at 11:59pm on 26 July 2026, so please share your views and comments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is is looking into childcare services, and is making a call for evidence from families, providers and professionals, and other interested parties.<\/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-20198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 15:02:09","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\/20198","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=20198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}