FAMILIES have moved to Wales from England without realising they will lose entitlement to free childcare from nine months old, councillors have been told.

Monmouthshire County Council has now agreed to write to the Welsh Government to ask that it also provide free childcare for the youngest children.

Across the border up to 30 hours a week of free childcare has been available, depending on circumstances, since September 1 this year while the offer of the same amount of hours in Wales only applies to three and four-year-olds.

Monmouthshire councillors unanimously backed the call for the Welsh Government to match what’s available in England by providing free childcare from nine months.

Conservative councillor for Portskewett Lisa Dymock, who asked the council........

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