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The Welsh Government has committed to provide working parents with 30 hours of free education and childcare a week for 3 and 4 year olds. This enhanced childcare offer is being rolled out from September 2017 in parts of seven local authorities across Wales: Flintshire, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea. Welsh Government are looking to procure an organisation to undertake a thorough evaluation of this first year of early implementation of the childcare offer across these 7 authorities; looking at both the process and the impact of the childcare offer. This evaluation would be primarily focused on process evaluation with a view to use it to inform the policy and delivery for later years and will involve research with parents and childcare providers. The Welsh Government has committed to provide working parents with 30 hours of free education and childcare a week for 3 and 4 year olds. This enhanced childcare offer is being rolled out from September 2017 in parts of 7 local authorities across Wales: Flintshire, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea. Welsh Government are looking to procure an organisation to undertake a thorough evaluation of this first year of early implementation of the childcare offer across these 7 authorities; looking at both the process and the impact of the childcare offer. This evaluation would be primarily focused on process evaluation with a view to use it to inform the policy and delivery for later years and will involve research with parents and childcare providers.