and flexibility of childcare has been extended for an extra year.
4Children's Community Childcare and Early Learning Hubs are designed to create a new model of community childcare - a 'blended' offer, so that parents can access nursery and childminder support from one co-ordinated source.
Twenty-five hubs are now up and running, offering childcare through a range of providers, including local authorities, children's centres, schools and the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) settings.
Alongside consortium partners, including the Innovation Trust and Contact a Family, 4Children was initially granted two years' funding to develop the model with a grant of £750,000 through the Department for Education's (DfE) Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) grant programme in 2013-15.
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