Think of the number you started with and double it - that's the message from everyone in the childcare business to the Government.
In the week that the 800th children's centre was opened in a hard-pressed estate a couple of miles from Westminster, the people who will have to deliver the ten-year childcare plan told the Government that it will be 'utterly impossible' on present budgets.
The Treasury will have to more than double the funds projected if the ten-year plan is to be fulfilled by 2010.
Like the child poverty strategy, the easy bit has already been achieved.
The next four years will make or break the childcare plan, which is the most ambitious of Labour's legacy-seeking programmes.
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