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Free Entitlement extended to all adopted 2 year olds

The free early education entitlement for two-year-olds will be extended to all adopted children from 2014.

The Prime Minister announced a new package of support for people who want to adopt to ensure more children get a stable, loving home without delays, including Free Entitlement Funding for all adopted 2 year olds.

The Government has made sorting out and speeding up adoption a priority, overhauling the system to make it swifter, more effective and robust. They have made good progress and some encouraging signs of improvement have emerged. For example, the number of children available for adoption has risen from 3000 in 2010 to more than 4000 in 2012. Court processes have moved more swiftly too. But we need hundreds more people to come forward to adopt.

The measures outlined go even further to ensure potential adopters are welcomed with open arms, given a much more active role, including in the matching process, and greater support with this life-changing decision.

They will also ensure that once people have gone through the adoption process, they will get more ongoing support.

The Government is looking at ways to give adopters a more active role in the adoption process, with the chance to make a connection with a child in advance and play a greater role in finding the right match.

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Childcare tax break - parents can claim up to £2,000 a year

Britain spends more on subsidising childcare than just about any other European country, but many families struggle to meet the costs when they go back to work. The result is that around one million women are believed to be missing from the workforce, deterred by "crippling" fees for nurseries or childminders.

Due to this families, could now be entitled to claim up to £2,000 per child every year from their tax bills to cover the cost of childminders and nurseries as part of a new government scheme to help families.

Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg say, 'We will support working families with childcare costs'.

However, experts warn that tax relief on childcare may not reach the poorest families. Vidhya Alakeson, Deputy Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, said: "It is good that the government sees childcare as a priority for the rest of its time in office. However, the suggested proposal of supporting working families with the costs of childcare through tax relief investment looks likely to be regressive, offering the most support to affluent families and very little to the 'strivers' the government says it wants to support. These are the families who face the greatest struggles with today's high costs of living, including childcare. Any new investment should focus on extending the number of hours universal childcare is available for young children, benefitting all families, including the poorest".

Chief executive Purnima Tanuku said, 'NDNA believes that all children and families should have access to high-quality childcare provision. Childcare supports working parents and enables children from all backgrounds to benefit from high quality early education, which is vital to give children the best possible start in life.

The final plans on childcare will be decided on Thursday at a meeting of Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg, Chancellor George Osborne and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.

The four ministers will try to decide what proportion of a child care bill could be claimed back through tax.

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