The children's charity says that its findings show the potential of children's centres 'as ideal locations' to provide places for the expansion of the twos offer.
The analysis, initial findings from the charity’s annual Children’s Centre Census, due to be published next month, reveals that half of all children’s centres, around 1,650, already offer childcare, providing a total of 18,300 places for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
This is despite the fact that the requirement for children’s centres to deliver childcare was removed in 2011.
According to 4Children's census, over the coming year, a further 6,200 two-year-old places will made available at children's centres, an increase of more than a third.
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