The council is planning to restrict subsidised holiday and after-school club places only to vulnerable children or those who have special educational needs.
Under the proposals, the cost of out-of-school provision for parents of all other children would increase from £22 to £120 a week for holiday play schemes - an increase of 545 per cent - and from £8.30 to £30 per week for after-school provision - a rise of 360 per cent.
The proposals to cut subsidised out-ofschool provision come just weeks after the Conservative-led council was accused of making massive cuts to services for vulnerable children.
Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, leader of Westminster's Labour group, said, 'These increases in children's play charges have broken all the records. Nowhere in Britain has a council dared to increase charges by over 500 per cent. This is a first for Westminster, for which the Conservatives should be truly ashamed.'
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