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Editor's view - free places for disadvantaged two-year-olds

Management Policy & Politics
What implications will providing more money for two-year-olds have for the free entitlement overall?

By the time this week's Nursery World is published and in your hands, the much-dreaded Comprehensive Spending Review will have been released. In all probability, the world will still be turning on Thursday morning, however apocalyptic the prospect of the massive cuts planned may seem! Life will go on as normal for most of us, in the short term at least, and it will take some time for changes to take place.

Last week, the Coalition Government attempted to soften the blow with Nick Clegg's announcement of 15 hours a week of free nursery care for disadvantaged two-year-olds (see News, page 4).

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