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Childcare and playwork services in Wales have faced numerous challenges as a result of Covid\-19\.  I am immensely grateful to everyone who has worked so hard to provide quality childcare and play opportunities for our children and young people and to ensure that families have access to these vital services.


I fully recognise that for some providers, many of the challenges caused by Covid\-19 have not gone away and this is why I am pleased to announce that I am making available an additional £5\.1 million this financial year to further support the childcare and playwork sector.


£3\.5 million of this funding will be distributed to local authorities via the Children and Communities Grant and will be available to assist with the short term impact of the health emergency on services.  This should go some way towards ensuring that providers can keep on operating as they seek to recover from the effects of Covid\-19 or adapt to meet the needs of families in the future. It will be up to each local authority to decide how this money is allocated, according to local priorities.


Alongside this I am also providing additional funding to our local authorities to help them with their statutory responsibilities in respect of childcare and playwork and to the six umbrella bodies representing the childcare and playwork sector.


Local authorities across Wales are required to undertake Childcare Sufficiency Assessments (CSAs) every 5 years, in consultation with key stakeholders, providing a comprehensive overview of the supply of, and demand for, childcare at the local level. They are also required to undertake Play Sufficiency Assessments (PSAs) every three years, providing a comprehensive view of the play opportunities in their area.  Both the CSAs and PSAs are due in 2022, and I am pleased to be able to provide £440,000 as part of this overall package towards the costs of undertaking these very important assessments.


Now, more than ever, we need to find every possible way of building a true picture of what things look like on the ground in terms of supply of childcare and play opportunities so that our policies and funding priorities are properly targeted to ensure we support the right type of childcare, in the right place, at the right time.


I am providing £1\.25m to the six umbrella bodies for the childcare and playwork sectors to enable them to continue to support service providers across Wales as they adapt to and recover from the impacts of the past 18 months.  This will enable them to support individual settings, the wider workforce and to drive forward the quality of our provision.  £1m is being allocated to Cwlwm, the consortium of the five umbrella bodies for childcare, and £250k to Play Wales. This includes an allocation to Play Wales in respect of their work on the Ministerial Review of Play.


This announcement comes in addition to the recent joint announcement with the Minister for Finance and Local Government,to extend the 100% small business rate relief scheme for registered child care providers for an additional three years, to 31 March 2025\.


Both statements underline our commitment to looking after Wales’ young people and their families through supporting childcare and playwork opportunities and all of those who continue to work tirelessly to provide vital services to families.







Translation:


 
Mae gwasanaethau gofal plant a chwarae yng Nghymru wedi wynebu nifer o heriau o ganlyniad i Covid\-19\. Rwy’n hynod ddiolchgar i bawb sydd wedi gweithio mor galed i ddarparu cyfleoedd gofal plant a chwarae o’r radd flaenaf i’n plant a’n pobl ifanc, gan sicrhau bod teuluoedd yn gallu cael gafael ar y gwasanaethau hanfodol hyn.


Rwy’n cydnabod yn llwyr bod rhai darparwyr yn parhau i wynebu nifer o’r heriau a achoswyd gan Covid\-19, felly rwy’n falch o gyhoeddi fy mod yn sicrhau £5\.1 miliwn arall y flwyddyn ariannol hon i roi rhagor o gymorth i’r sector gofal plant a gwaith chwarae.


Bydd £3\.5 miliwn o’r cyllid hwn yn cael ei ddosbarthu i awdurdodau lleol drwy’r Grant Plant a Chymunedau. Bydd ar gael i helpu gydag effeithiau tymor byr yr argyfwng iechyd ar wasanaethau. Dylai hyn helpu i sicrhau y gall darparwyr barhau i weithredu wrth iddynt geisio adfer o effeithiau Covid\-19, neu addasu i ddiwallu anghenion teuluoedd yn y dyfodol. Bydd pob awdurdod lleol yn penderfynu sut i ddyrannu’r arian hwn, yn unol â blaenoriaethau yn yr ardal.


Ynghyd â hyn, rwyf hefyd yn darparu cyllid ychwanegol i’n hawdurdodau lleol i’w helpu â chyfrifoldebau statudol mewn perthynas â gofal plant a gwaith chwarae, ac i’r chwe chorff ambarél sy’n cynrychioli’r sector gofal plant a gwaith chwarae.


Mae hi’n ofynnol i awdurdodau lleol ledled Cymru gynnal Asesiadau Digonolrwydd Gofal Plant bob 5 mlynedd, mewn ymgynghoriad â rhanddeiliaid allweddol, gan ddarparu trosolwg cynhwysfawr o’r cyflenwad gofal plant a’r galw amdano ar lefel leol. Mae hi hefyd yn ofynnol iddynt gynnal Asesiadau Digonolrwydd Cyfleoedd Chwarae bob tair blynedd, gan ddarparu trosolwg cynhwysfawr o’r cyfleoedd chwarae yn eu hardal. Mae’r ddau asesiad i’w cyflwyno yn 2022, ac rwy’n falch o allu darparu £440,000 fel rhan o’r pecyn cyflawn hwn tuag at gostau cynnal yr asesiadau pwysig hyn.


Yn awr, yn fwy nag erioed, rhaid inni ganfod pob ffordd bosibl o lunio darlun cywir o’r ddarpariaeth o gyfleoedd gofal plant a chwarae ar lawr gwlad, fel bod ein blaenoriaethau ariannu a pholisi wedi’u targedu’n gywir i sicrhau ein bod yn cefnogi’r math iawn o ofal plant, yn y mannau cywir, ar yr adegau cywir.


Rwy’n darparu £1\.25m i’r chwe chorff ambarél ar gyfer y sector gofal plant a gwaith chwarae er mwyn iddo allu parhau i gefnogi darparwyr gwasanaethau ledled Cymru wrth iddynt addasu i effeithiau’r 18 mis diwethaf ac adfer o ganlyniad iddynt. Yn sgil hyn bydd modd iddynt gefnogi lleoliadau unigol, y gweithlu ehangach, a rhoi hwb i ansawdd ein darpariaeth. Mae £1m yn cael ei ddyrannu i Cwlwm, consortiwm y pum corff ambarél ar gyfer gofal plant, ac mae £250k yn cael ei ddyrannu i Chwarae Cymru. Mae hyn yn cynnwys dyraniad i Chwarae Cymru mewn perthynas â’i waith ar yr Adolygiad Gweinidogol o Gyfleoedd Chwarae.


Mae’r cyhoeddiad hwn yn ategu’r cyhoeddiad diweddar ar y cyd gyda’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Cymru i estyn y cynllun rhyddhad ardrethi o 100% i fusnesau bach ar gyfer darparwyr gofal plant cofrestredig am dair blynedd ychwanegol, hyd at 31 Mawrth 2025\.


Mae’r ddau ddatganiad yn tanlinellu ein hymrwymiad i ofalu am bobl ifanc Cymru a’u teuluoedd drwy gefnogi cyfleoedd gofal plant a gwaith chwarae a phob un sy’n parhau i weithio’n ddiflino i ddarparu gwasanaethau hanfodol i deuluoedd.