Good quality childcare and early education benefits children and gives parents the opportunity to work, study or train for a job.
The wide choice of childcare providers in Calderdale offer different services to suit your family’s needs. Many have provided information about how they meet children’s additional needs and how they will work in partnership with parents / carers to help all children to fulfil their potential (their 'Local Offer'). Look for the orange flash against a provider’s individual record.
We recommend that you visit at least two or three childcare providers. Please see our Choosing Childcare checklist or our Childcare Choices Booklet. If you would like a paper copy please contact us.
Not all registered childcare providers choose to have their full details published here so if you do not find what you are looking for, or if you require additional support finding the right sort of childcare, please contact us.
Ofsted is the legal body responsible for registering and inspecting childcare. They can be contacted on 0300 123 1231.
Calderdale Council is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. The Council takes its responsibilities under the Act very seriously.
The information provided by you is collected purely for the purposes of creating your online account to allow you to search for information about childcare. Creating an online account with us constitutes explicit consent from you for us to process your data for this purpose. You may withdraw this consent at any time by writing to the Service Manager, Early Years Learning and Childcare Team, Westgate House, Halifax, HX1 1PS and marking your correspondence for the attention of the Service Manager. In addition you have the right to see what information is held about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, to have information removed from our system unless we are required by law or a statutory purpose to keep it and the right to complain to the Data Protection Officer if you feel that your data has not been handled in accordance with the law. The Council’s Data Protection Officer is Tracie Robinson and can be contacted at information_management@calderdale.gov.uk This information will be held on record by Calderdale Council for 12 months or removed at your request.
If you have any compliments or complaints please follow the Council's Complaints Policy which can be found: http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/corporatecomplaints/index.html