The Government's Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is investing 1.5m to fund at least 400 full-time childcare places in a pilot scheme. It is hoped the initiative will help the LSC increase the proportion of 16-to 18-year-olds involved in structured learning and support those already in further education and encourage others to go back to school.
The funding will be distributed among the 47 regional LSCs in England, and it will be up to them to decide which teenage parents should benefit and who will provide the places. The experimental scheme is part of the LSC's Learner Support Fund, aimed at disadvantaged learners, ethnic minorities and those with disabilities, which has been increased in value by 22m to 134m in 2002/03. The pilot will run for a year but the LSC expects it to be made permanent.
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