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 services for under-twos.
It said, 'The Government will also look to build on this approach with pilots of grants for the youngest children and conditional support in other areas, learning lessons from international examples of these approaches, including programmes in New York.'
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