Parent skills scheme to close
Monday, July 26, 2010
The government is to scrap the 75m Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work scheme.
Launched in 2008, it was designed to support low-income families where one parent was working and the other wanted to improve their skills to get back to work. As well as free childcare, parents received support to identify and attend training courses.
Parents receiving support will do so until the end of August. The Department for Education cited lower than expected take-up of the scheme and pressures on public expenditures as reasons for closing the initiative.