This comes from the nursery milk scheme website:
The Department of Health has launched a GB-wide public consultation on the future operation of the Nursery Milk Scheme. The main aim of the consultation is to explore options for modernising and simplifying the operation of the Nursery Milk Scheme and improving its value for money, while ensuring that all children under five attending a childcare setting for more than two hours a day continue to receive free milk.
Nursery Milk is a universal benefit, meaning that childcare settings can claim the cost of milk provided to any child, regardless of the child’s home circumstances. All the options explored in the consultation ensure that the scheme will continue as a universal benefit. None of the options in the consultation involve a change in the amount of milk provided or to the age, or number of children eligible to receive it.
The consultation will run until the 11th of September 2012. The Department of Health is keen to hear your views on the proposed options and specific questions. You can access the consultation paper, the impact assessment and equality analysis on the DH website via the link below:
http://consultations.dh.gov.uk/nurserymilk/nextsteps
In parallel with the public consultation, the Department of Health is asking all childcare providers currently registered with the scheme to complete a simple survey about how the scheme works for them now, and how potential changes might affect them and the children they care for. This survey will close on Monday the 16th of July. The survey address is:
http://consultations.dh.gov.uk/nurse...ettings-survey
Any decision on the future operation of the scheme will be taken after full consideration is given to the consultation and survey responses and other relevant information.
Please send any general queries about the scheme or the consultation to: nurserymilk@dh.gsi.gov.uk
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