The authority is leading the way in extending the number of free hoursof childcare that parents can get each week. Currently all three- andfour-year-olds are entitled to 12 free hours per week for 38 weeks ayear. But the Government has said this will increase to 15 hours a weekby 2010.
Rochdale has been chosen as a pathfinder and hopes to get more than1m from the Department for Education and Skills to offer extrafree childcare to about 2,700 children.
Bob Adams, the council's play and childcare development officer, saidthe aim was that three-quarters of children would get the extra hours byApril next year and all would have the entitlement by April 2008.
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