Labour might extend free childcare hours

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 18 February 2004

The Government is looking at extending the child tax credit scheme to enable parents on low incomes to have more than the two-and-a-half hours a day of universal free provision they receive for their three- and four-year-old children.

The Government is looking at extending the child tax credit scheme to enable parents on low incomes to have more than the two-and-a-half hours a day of universal free provision they receive for their three- and four-year-old children. The Sure Start Unit at the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) said last week that the Government was set to announce that...

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