Mr Morgan wrote to Cardiff council two weeks ago after parents from the city and the Vale of Glamorgan claimed that they were unable to access the free entitlement because of council policy, which states that if there is a maintained nursery within two miles of the family home, the child must attend that nursery.
Welsh Assembly government guidelines say the free part-time education place should be as 'accessible as possible to the child's home'.
But parents have complained that the nearest nursery is not always the most convenient - for example, if they have to take other children to schools in different areas, or if the council-run nursery does not offer full daycare and they have to leave work in the middle of the day.
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