Children who have received the grant for three-year-olds and attended daycare during the autumn term may have the grant funding withdrawn from next term. Warwickshire County Council said it was due to a surge in the uptake of nursery places which left limited Department for Education and Skills funding.
Grants will continue to be allocated to children born between 1 January and 31 March 1999, but from next term not all children born after 1 April 1999 will receive it. Grants will be allocated to younger three-year-olds according to the child poverty index, using the ward in which the nursery is located. This means parents using nurseries in South Warwickshire, regarded as a more affluent area, are unlikely to continue to receive funding.
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