Nursery World - Funds create 900 childcare places

Up to 900 new childcare places are to be created in one county's most disadvantaged areas with money from the Government's Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme. The Suffolk Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership is using 2.3m for its Neighbourhood Childcare Initiative to create between four and six new nurseries and 12 out-of-school clubs and lead to the recruitment of 114 more childminders. Most of the investment is aimed at deprived areas of Ipswich, Lowestoft and Haverhill.

The Suffolk Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership is using Pounds 2.3m for its Neighbourhood Childcare Initiative to create between four and six new nurseries and 12 out-of-school clubs and lead to the recruitment of 114 more childminders. Most of the investment is aimed at deprived areas of Ipswich, Lowestoft and Haverhill.

Sue Thomas, chair of the Suffolk EYDCP, said, 'This funding will enable us to tackle the lack of childcare that so often prevents people from working. One of our aims is that every lone parent gaining employment in a Neighbourhood Childcare Initiative area is able to access a reliable childcare place.'

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