The phrase "formal provisions" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to specific rules or regulations that are legally binding and have been formally established. You can use it in contexts such as legal documents, contracts, or official policies. Example: The new company handbook includes formal provisions for employee conduct and performance evaluations.
Food banks, whilst providing a vital and welcoming lifeline to many, should not become a readily accepted part of that formal provision," the report says.
If mothers must work, their children will need care; but formal provision is often unavailable, especially for babies and in poor areas.
Also, it is a concern that the cuts in public spending that we are facing will see a reduction in formal provision of both childcare and care services for older people.
- the obligation to respect the constitutional order – essentially a formal provision of declarative nature, found in most European countries, allowing action to be taken, for instance, if armed attacks are promoted against democratic institutions.
This newspaper still thinks the best solution would be to keep the public option as a threat: to set up a formal provision in the bill whereby a public plan would be introduced in, say, five years' time if certain targets were not met.
Formal provision includes day nurseries, nursery schools, nursery classes, playgroups, children or family centres and childminders.
It is also the case that changes have continued to occur in the formal provision of services for unscheduled care since 2002.
By comparison, respondents argued that little formal provision had been made at provincial level for providing support to nurses involved in the initiation of the ART roll-out.
In this study, CS is defined as "the formal provision, by approved supervisors, of relationship-based education and training that is work-focused and which manages, supports, develops and evaluates the work of colleague/s" [ 7].
