The £10m pilots will be offered in Blackpool, Derby City, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kingston upon Thames, North Tyneside, Rotherham, Somerset, Staffordshire and Sunderland.
The scheme, designed to ease children's transition between early years and primary school, will include a variety of approaches, including holding meetings between parents, childminders and early years and primary school teachers, and appointing advisors who can inform parents of the different childcare options in the area (News, 15 May).
Christine Halstead, head of early years education and childcare at Kingston-upon-Thames council, said, 'We were really excited to be selected. We put together a proposal looking at bonding and attachment right from conception and how we can help improve verbal and non-verbal communication. The DCSF will identify which parts of our proposal they liked and then we will get a project team together to look at how we will deliver it.'
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