FAMILIES will benefit from extra child care provision foll-owing a £16,000 grant.
From September, families living on Sunderland's Ford Estate will be able to apply for extra child care places at Havelock Primary School, where a mother and toddler group is already based.
The places will be funded by the Government's Sure Start project, which aims to improve the health and well-being of families with children under the age of four.
It has already paid for improvements to a room in Havelock School as well as toys and extra facilities, and will also fund the appointment of a play worker to work alongside parents and increase the number of sessions to every weekday.
Maggie Perry, Pennywell Neighbourhood Centre manager, said: "The mother and toddler group running at Havelock is great as it involves parents in their child's development from a very early stage. The funding from Sure Start has paid for extra facilities which will further enhance children's development.
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