The first round of the Childcare Affordability Programme subsidised morethan 3,200 affordable and flexible childcare places at mainly privateand voluntary nurseries in 26 local authority areas (Children Now, 9-15November, 2005).
However, seven London councils did not invite providers to get involved,provoking strong criticism from nursery managers.
Denise Burke, senior childcare manager at the London Development Agency,hoped she would see bids from those authorities in the second round,which has a deadline of 17 February. Providers should contact theircouncils if they had not yet heard anything, she advised.
The London Development Agency is in the process of assessing bids forthe programme's second phase to fund innovative solutions to tacklespecific childcare problems such as the high cost of childcare forfamilies with disabled children and emergency childcare. The GreaterLondon Enterprise has been appointed as an agent to manage theprogramme.
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