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Extending the Free Early Education Entitlement: Discussion Document on a New Code of Practice.

Early Years
The government has committed to providing all children aged three and four with 15 hours per week of free early learning and childcare, for 38 weeks a year from September 2010.

This initial discussion paper looks at how best to deliver this extended free entitlement, so that it has the maximum impact on improving outcomes for children and their families.

The paper will focus on issues such as flexibility and quality of provision. The key principles of the entitlement will remain: it will be available according to parental demand, be delivered by a range of providers, and be completely free at the point of access. The feedback from this discussion paper will then be used to produce a draft code of practice, which will be subject to a formal consultation process this autumn.

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