Sentence examples for free entitlements from inspiring English sources

"NHS free entitlements, such as continuing care, could be reduced or means-tested and hotel costs in hospital charged," he continued.

NHS free entitlements, such as continuing care, could be reduced or means-tested and hotel costs in hospital charged, as in France and Germany.

"Families from lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to use the Early Years Free Entitlement," the report says.

Bright Blue says the free entitlement should be used in order to gain access to child benefit.

Dr Birgitta Rabe, from Essex University, said: "The case for extending the free entitlement (for all) is not as clear cut as the political rhetoric might suggest".

"In this context, it might be more appropriate to see the free entitlement as a form of child benefit, and the policy debate should reflect this".

Based on the FCT's own figures, our free entitlement will save the average eligible family £2,500 per year for each child".

Cooper's study failed to take into consideration the pupil premium, a free entitlement to nursery care for the poorest two-year-olds and support to help those from deprived families get to university, she added.

We've also increased the free entitlement to 15 hours for all three- and four-year-olds and by 2014-15 [and] 260,000 two-year-olds – the most disadvantaged – will also receive 15 hours free childcare, which could be worth around £2,900 for some families".

The expansion of free early education in the 2000s was a very expensive way to move an additional 12,000 mothers into the labour force, and the case for extending the free entitlement is not as clearcut as political rhetoric might suggest.

On the educational benefits of free pre-school places, Jo Blanden, a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Surrey, said: "While previous research has suggested that early education is key to long-term attainment, our research has shown that the free entitlement did not deliver the anticipated gains.