The Department for Education is consulting on which two-year-olds should benefit in the second phase of the government expansion of free childcare from 2014 when 40 per cent of two-year-olds will be eligible for the free entitlement.
From next September 20 per cent of two-year-olds will be eligible for the entitlement and will be drawn from families meeting the criteria also used to decide eligibility for free school meals, as well as looked-after children.
In the consultation the government is proposing that this eligibility criteria is expanded to also include children in in low income families earning no more than £16,190 each year; those who have special educational needs or a disability and children who have been adopted.
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