The CAP 09-11 phase of the programme, which was announced by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, last Thursday (6 August) will run from December 2009 to December 2011 and will be managed by the London Development Agency (LDA).
The first phase of the CAP helped 8,500 families with children under five to find subsidised childcare places.
Denise Burke, head of childcare at the LDA, said, 'The first phase of the childcare affordability programme, which we now call CAP 05, was incredibly successful and 8,500 parents were helped back into work. However, the feedback we got from local authorities was that although the programme was successful, it needed to be run on a more localised level.
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