Camden Council will increase the 15-hour free entitlement to 25 hours a week for at least the next two academic years in 13 out of 15 of its children’s centres and all primary schools that have a nursery.
The council halved the number of full-time nursery places in schools and children’s centres to 800 in the wake of Government cuts to local authority funding in 2010.
Priority was given to children with special educational needs and disabilities and families with both parents working with a household income of less than £35,000 a year, or who were in training.
The council said it has now reinstated the funding, which they said as well as supporting the poorest families, should help parents on middle-incomes, who are losing child benefit.
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