It includes plans for a national roll-out of the Parents, Early Years and Learning programme (PEAL) to help parents support their children's learning, which is led by the NCB and Parenting UK.
The Pre-School Learning Alliance was involved in the pilot project which started last year and is working on the extension of the scheme.
The Alliance, along with other partners including the NCMA, NCB, I CAN and PEEP (Peers Early Education Partnership) was involved in piloting different methodologies for working with parents.
Alliance chief executive Steve Alexander said, 'We hope that this extension of the PEAL project will see this work supported by mainstream, rather than project, funding.' He said that the Alliance's experience of working with families demonstrated that families perceived services provided by community-based voluntary organisations as 'particularly approachable'.
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