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We do not have details on the number of unique visitors using the Parent Know How Directory since it does not have its own website. The Directory is published on various websites that are used by parents, including Directgov, DadTalk and Parentline Plus. The number of hits on the system that feeds data to all the sites that publish the Parent Know How Directory currently averages 52,000 each day. In the last financial year (2008-09) £6,627,000 was spent on the Directory-which includes £5.65 millon in grants to local authorities to enable them to develop their own local databases of family service information. In this financial year (2009-10) we anticipate spending £1,500,000.
A range of organisations are funded under the Parent Know How programme to deliver different services to support parents.
At any time these individual organisations may be delivering that support via (a) publications, (b) video and audio content or (c) social networking-as well as telephone helplines and websites. We do not hold the information to accurately disaggregate the spending on each of these activities from the overall funding for each of these organisations. But the table below sets out the costs for these activities, for each year from April 2008 where this can be clearly identified from the information held.
| 2008-09 | |
| £ | |
| 2009-10: (1 April-14 December 2009) | |
| £ | |
The table as follows sets out how much has been paid to external consultants and advisers each month since the Parent Know How programme started in 2008:
| £ | |
Pre-School Education: Finance
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent on extending the pre-school entitlement to two year-olds in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [304202]
Dawn Primarolo: Funding for the two-year-old offer of free early education and child care is provided to local authorities as a ring-fenced block of the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant. The latest year for which audited spend is currently available is 2007-08. The spend for 2007-08 was £10,421,842. This was for the 32 local authorities in wave one of the programme.
The allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 are shown in the following table.
| Three year allocations for the two-year-old early learning and child care block of the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant | |
| Two-year-old early learning and child care allocations (£) | |
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