The plans, set to be included in Labour's election manifesto published later this week, will involve the conversion of 3,300 existing primary school classrooms into nurseries, to deliver provision for children from nine-months-old.
These classrooms are available due to declining birth rates and falling school rolls UK-wide.
Areas known as ‘childcare deserts’, where there is a severe shortage of childcare provision, will be targeted first under the party’s plans, taking a similar approach to Sure Start services, a UK-wide programme that was introduced to support children in disadvantaged areas in 1998 under Tony Blair's Labour government.
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