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Two-year-old offer costs nurseries £7,000 a year

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  • Thursday, February 27, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Early years settings providing free childcare places for disadvantaged two-year-olds are losing on average nearly £7,000 a year because of underfunding of the scheme, research suggests.

Schools failing to deliver on free childcare places

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  • Friday, September 19, 2014
  • | CYP Now
The government's plan to rely on school-based nurseries to deliver more free childcare places for two-year-olds has been described as "nonsensical", after latest figures reveal less than one in 10 of such settings are providing the free entitlement.