{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/21",
  "legislation_title": "Childcare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Powers of local authority in relation to the provision of childcare",
  "text": "(1) A Welsh local authority may—\n(a) assist any person who provides or proposes to provide childcare;\n(b) make arrangements with any other person for the provision of childcare;\n(c) provide childcare.\n(2) The assistance which a local authority may give under subsection (1)(a) includes financial assistance; and the arrangements which a local authority may make under subsection (1)(b) include arrangements involving the provision of financial assistance by the authority.\n(3) In exercising their functions under this section, a Welsh local authority must have regard to any guidance given from time to time by the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 31.1.2008 by S.I. 2008/17, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:29.405916+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}