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This includes £140m in catch-up funding we discuss in detail in section 4, support for free meals discussed in section 6 and £45m to support remote learning during the current lockdown.4 In addition to the catch-up and free meals support described later in this report, the Welsh Government has provided £10m to local authorities to support school transport costs, £30m to local authorities to suppor. [...] In this section we review the available evidence to assess the impact that the pandemic has had on the early years sector and summarise the support provided by the government of each country of the UK since provider re-opened to all children in summer 2020. [...] A clearer picture of the capacity and health of the sector is provided by the proportion of children who are attending early years settings compared to the proportion we might have expected in the absence of a pandemic. [...] Government support provided Below we describe the support provided by governments of UK nations in the 2020 autumn term, building on our earlier review of support provided in the first period of school closures in response to the pandemic.10 UK-wide support Since October, most of the support offered by the UK Government that applied to businesses, including private, voluntary and independent early. [...] Children unable to attend in the school term The duties on local authorities to evaluate the educational and other needs of children, and to provide support that is suitable to these needs were temporarily modified in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland during the first lockdown.