The London Childcare Affordability Programme - which is run by the London Development Agency (LDA) - has had its funding reduced to £8m, down by a third from the originally planned £12m budget.
The programme aims to make childcare in the capital more affordable by subsidising day care places, while assisting out-of-work parents - who had a household income of less than £20,000 in the past 12 months - to stay in, or return to, full or part-time employment.
But instead of running in 10 London boroughs, as proposed in August this year, the programme will now run in just eight boroughs.
It will contribute to the cost of childcare for families in Brent, Ealing, Hackney, Southwark and Westminster. The programme will also fund training, employment and childcare advice for parents in three other boroughs: Barking & Dagenham, Islington and Harrow.
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