The £10m pilots will be offered in Blackpool, Derby City, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kingston upon Thames, North Tyneside, Rotherham, Somerset, Staffordshire and Sunderland.
The partnership scheme, designed to help ease children's transition between early years and primary school, will include a variety of approaches, including holding meetings between parents, childminders and early years and primary school teachers; giving parents a single point of contact for childcare; and appointing advisors who can inform parents of the different childcare options in the area (News, 15 May).
The Government has also published local authority funding allocations for childcare and early years support, announced in the Children's Plan, which amount to a total of £819m funding over the next three years.
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