Next Steps for Early Learning and Childcare: Building on the Ten-YearStrategy says the Government will look at how to enable parents to 'rollover' free provision for two-year-olds to cover three- andfour-year-olds in the long term.
Last month the Government said it would extend places for two-year-oldsfrom pilot areas to 15 per cent of the most disadvantaged families inevery local authority area (News, 22 January).
The Government has also said it plans to extend the free offer for alltwo-year-olds 'stage by stage'.
Saying that it recognises that the free offer needs to become moreflexible so that parents 'have more choices about when to take it up,not just how many hours they use', the Government plans to work withlocal authorities and providers so parents can stretch the 38-week offerover a whole year (see box.)
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