The three organisations to receive the largest awards to develop projects are The Pre-school Alliance, Barnardo’s and The Children’s Society.
Next year, five of the 15 areas in England that are being funded will be chosen to receive investments of between £30-£50m over the next ten years to develop their programmes and gather evidence to show the benefit of early years support for children, society and the economy.
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, said, ‘The investment, A Better Start, aims to improve the physical, emotional and psychological foundations built during a child’s first few years, the most rapid and important phase of their development.’
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