The funding, published in the Welsh Government’s Final Budget 2025-26, will support the Flying Start programme to deliver childcare to two-year-olds across Wales.
The hourly rate for childcare providers will also be increased to £6.40 an hour.
“This is important to tackle child poverty and to help parents get in to work to help with the cost-of-living crisis,” said leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds MS, with whom the Welsh Government agreed the budget.
Welsh Labour ministers needed the help of at least one MS from the Welsh opposition to get their £26bn budget plans passed in the Senedd, according to the BBC, and Dodds is her party’s only Senedd politician.
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