Free childcare for teenage parents

By James Tweed
Nursery World
26 June 2003

Students aged between 16 and 19 in England who become parents are to be given up to £15,000 over three years towards their childcare costs. The Government initiative Care to Learn?, which begins next month, is for young parents - either mothers or fathers - who attend sixth form school or further education colleges or are in work-based learning. The Department for Education and Skills will pay up to £5,000 per child each year towards the costs of all types of registered childcare to enable their parents to learn, study or train for employment and let them retain a childcare...

 

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