The Government has reverted to its original plan to offer free places only to two-year-olds in the most deprived areas. The commitment to extend the free entitlement to 20 hours also appears to have been put on hold. In his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference in September, Gordon Brown said the Government would 'stage by stage, extend free nursery places for two-year-olds for every parent who wants them in every part...