The DfEShas commissioned the University of Oxford to carry out the evaluation. A DfES spokesperson said, 'We will use the lessons from this to inform the setting up of a wide range of integrated services following this year's Comprehensive Spending Review.'
The DfES provided three years' funding for the pilot projects to explore innovative ways of providing care outside the time a child spends at nursery or school. The funding runs out in March 2003.
However, the DfES spokesperson added, 'We'll be making a small amount of supplementary funding available for 2003/04, for the transitional period.'
One of the wraparound childcare projects, in Lancashire, is seeking further funding to continue its work next year. Project co-ordinator Julie Wilson said, 'We are planning to keep things going in whatever way we can.'
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