{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/21",
  "legislation_title": "Childcare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Powers of local authority in relation to the provision of childcare",
  "text": "(1) An English 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In exercising their functions under this section, an English local authority must have regard to any guidance given from time to time by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1)(c) omitted (26.12.2023) by virtue of Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 241(a), 255(9)(b) (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 8(3)-(5) omitted (26.12.2023) by virtue of Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 241(b), 255(9)(b) (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2717, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/8",
    "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."
}