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* The National Childminding Association's three-year, Government-funded pilot Teen Parent Project, which has provided free childcare for teenage parents to continue their education, training or work, ends next month. But projects will continue in north-east Lincolnshire, Blackpool, Greenwich, and Barking and Dagenham in Essex. Local authorities in those areas will fund network co-ordinators and teenage parents will be eligible for the Government's 'Care to learn?'

Local authorities in those areas will fund network co-ordinators and teenage parents will be eligible for the Government's 'Care to learn?'

scheme, launched in August. Parents aged 16 to 19 are able to claim for registered childcare and transport costs of up to 5,000 a year.

All teen parents in England will be eligible from next August.

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