Early years settings are being encouraged to become more flexible about the times and days they operate, as pilot projects get underway in London to encourage unemployed parents into work.
The schemes, which go live across ten boroughs next month, will offer 2,000 low-income families help with both finding and funding childcare.
The £12m extension to the childcare affordability programme (CAP) is a key tool in the Government's campaign to defeat child poverty, which has taken on a new urgency in the face of the recession.
Halving child poverty by next year and eradicating it by 2020 has long been the cornerstone of Gordon Brown's vision of creating a more prosperous and fairer nation by raising families' incomes and giving every child the best start to transform their life chances.
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