Speaking at the Scottish National Party spring conference in Glasgow last week, Mr Salmond said that from September 2014, all three- and four-year-olds will be entitled by law to at least 600 hours a year of nursery provision.
The expansion of free nursery provision from 475 hours to more than 600 hours a year is expected to be included in the party's Children’s Bill next year.
The SNP leader said, ‘We have long cherished the ambition to increase pre-school education. In our first term we moved it from 412 hours to 475 hours free pre-school per annum, benefiting 100,000 children a year.
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