The Childcare Tasters initiative, which gives lone parents a week's free childcare and which was launched in Bradford, Haringey and Lewisham in April, will now be offered in areas including Birmingham, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool and Fife.
The Government will make a decision on a national rollout after the pilot ends in early 2006.
It is also expanding its extended schools childcare scheme, piloted in the same three areas.
Kate Stanley, senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, said the approach was "based on lone parents' lives and practical welfare policy".
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