According to a Department for Education survey of local authorities, 44 per cent of councils said they had experienced difficulties in providing 15 hours a week of funded childcare for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
Nearly four out of 10 councils said the doubling of the funded childcare entitlement - from 15 to 30 hours a week, for three- and four-year-olds of working families in September 2017 - had harmed efforts to ensure disadvantaged two-year-olds take up their entitlement.
A key factor is that places for three- and four-year-olds are cheaper to provide than those for disadvantaged two-year-olds, the research found.
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