Add Scottish funded early learning and childcare (#1008)#1643
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Add Scottish funded early learning and childcare (#1008)#1643
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Scotland's universal Funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) provision entitles every 3- and 4-year-old resident in Scotland to 1,140 funded hours per year, rolled out in full from August 2021 under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 s. 48–49. Adds: - Parameters under `gov/scottish_government/funded_early_learning_childcare/`: age/min.yaml (3), age/max.yaml (5, exclusive), hours_per_year.yaml (600 from Aug 2014, 1,140 from Aug 2021). - `scottish_funded_early_learning_childcare_eligible` — a Person-level boolean gated on `country == SCOTLAND` and the age window. - YAML tests covering eligible ages, the country gate (English 3-year-old excluded), and the age boundaries (2 and 5 both false). Scope is deliberately narrow: only the universal age-based strand. The eligible-two-year-old strand (vulnerable / low-income children aged 2 under the 2014 Order), Wales's Childcare Offer, and Northern Ireland's Pre-school Education Programme remain to be added in follow-up work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed: the Scottish ELC formula now models the 3-year-old statutory start-date condition as an explicit input, with tests for before/after start date and age bounds. CI is green.
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Summary
First-pass implementation of regional childcare under issue #1008.
Scotland's universal Funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) provision entitles every 3- and 4-year-old resident in Scotland to 1,140 funded hours per year, rolled out in full from August 2021 under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 ss. 48–49.
Adds:
gov/scottish_government/funded_early_learning_childcare/:age/min.yaml(3),age/max.yaml(5, exclusive)hours_per_year.yaml(600 from Aug 2014, 1,140 from Aug 2021)scottish_funded_early_learning_childcare_eligible— Person-level boolean, gated oncountry == SCOTLANDand the age window.Out of scope (follow-ups)
Test plan
ruff format+ruff checkon the new file.system.variables,system.parameters.gov.scottish_government.funded_early_learning_childcare).policyengine-core testrun.Partially addresses #1008.
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