Places for two-year-olds will be extended from the pilot areas to 15 percent of the most disadvantaged families in every local authority area,reaching around 23,000 children a year.
They will start in some local authorities from April, with the aim forall local authorities to offer the extra entitlement by September 2009.Families of two-year-olds will be able to access ten hours a week over38 weeks a year.
The London Borough of Newham has been piloting seven-and-a-half hours aweek for two-year-olds since April 2007. Janet Hicks, head of ExtendedServices, said the focus was on parents on low-incomes and children lesslikely to take up free places.
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