This month all 33 London boroughs are invited to take part in the second round of bidding for the London Development Agency's Childcare Affordability Programme to go live from April.
Since the roll-out of the first round of funding started on 14 November, more than 3,255 subsidised full daycare and flexible places have been made available in the 26 London boroughs which have signed up to the scheme.
Denise Burke, senior childcare manager at the LDA, said that the first monitoring evaluation of the programme would take place at the end of March.
Speaking to delegates at a conference in London last month, she said, 'I think we all agree that the tax credit system doesn't work. What the Childcare Affordability Programme is providing at the moment, we see as an exciting mix of supply and demand-side funding.'
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