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The government provides local authorities with funding to ensure a free part-time early education place for all three- and four-year-olds, regardless of parental income or circumstances. This works out as 12-and-a-half hours a week, 38 weeks a year, with a "registered provider" such as a school, nursery or playgroup. Children born between 1 April and 31 August are eligible for a free place from 1 September following their third birthday; children born between 1 September and 31 December are eligible on 1 January following their third birthday; and children born between 1 January and 31 March are eligible on 1 April following their third birthday.
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