The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is preparing tooffer 15 hours of childcare a week to all parents of all three- andfour-year-olds by September 2010 in addition to free care fortwo-year-olds in deprived areas.
In its recent childcare strategy, the DCSF pledged to allow parents tostretch their allowance of 15 weekly hours of childcare over a wholeyear, as opposed to just 38 weeks of term time. Parents may also be ableto "bank" hours they do not use when their child is two, giving themmore hours to use at three or four.
But nursery owners have told CYP Now that keeping track of how hours areused will be an "administrative nightmare". And if parents bank hoursinstead of using them across the year it will leave unfillable gaps.
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