Wales: Free childcare scheme seeks funding

By Melanie Defries, Nursery World, 31 January 2008

A three-year project in Wales aimed at helping parents back to work by providing training and free childcare is seeking funding to continue after it closes in March.

The Genesis Wales project has received £12.5m over three years from the European Structural Fund to target hard-to-reach, economically inactive parents. The Welsh Assembly Government has stepped in to provide up to £600,000 of interim funding for the project for the first quarter of the next financial year while additional funding is sought. Children's minister Jane Hutt, who visited Genesis Community Day Nursery in Tonyrefail last week, said the funding would help prevent job losses and ensure...

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