The first subsidies from the Childcare Affordability Programme wereannounced today (Wednesday, 9 November), with childcare providers from26 local authority areas gaining funding.
More than 3,200 childcare places will be created in this first trancheof the 33m programme, which is led by the London DevelopmentAgency.
But seven un-named councils did not have applications ready in time.Denise Burke, senior childcare manager at the agency, said there wereseveral reasons why they had not produced successful bids.
- See Analysis, p11.
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