Analysis: Childcare Affordability Programme - Capital gains

Nursery World, 20 February 2008

The funding to put childcare within reach of lower income families in London is coming to an end - what are the chances of its survival? Karen Faux investigates.

The Childcare Affordability Programme (CAP) was launched in London in 2005 to address what mayor Ken Livingstone called a serious lack of affordable childcare in the capital. Now, as it heads towards the end of its £33m funding period at the end of November, a question mark hangs over its future. As Denise Burke, head of childcare at the London Development Agency, says, 'If the existing mayor is re-elected there will...

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