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Nursery Education Grant: More authorities to offer 15 free hours
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
14 November 2007
Fourteen more local authorities are set to extend the free early education entitlement for three- and four-year-olds to 15 hours a week from next September.
Twenty councils in England already offer 15 hours (see box). The remaining local authorities will be given Government funding to extend the 15-hour offer to the most disadvantaged families in their areas from September 2009. Last week the Government pledged £340m for three years from 2008-11 through the Standards Fund to extend the offer so that all local authorities can provide 15 hours of early education for 38 weeks a year by 2010. But Darrell...
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