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Child poverty targeted in new Budget measures
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
19 March 2008
Ten local authorities in England will pilot grants to encourage poorer families to use children's centres, in plans unveiled by the Chancellor, Alistair Darling.
A one-off Child Development Grant of £200 will be made to low-income parents who take up taster sessions of childcare, use their free early years entitlement for three- and four-year-olds or have contact with their local children's centre. In Ending Child Poverty: Everybody's Business, a document published alongside last week's Budget report, the Government said it wanted to promote awareness of the free early years entitlement and of children's centres and to encourage parents to use...
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