Children in the Worthing area will benefit from grants given by the National Lottery's New Opportunities Fund to create new nurseries.

The fund has announced grants of £500,000 across West Sussex, with about £140,000 coming to the Worthing area.

The new places will include places at breakfast clubs, at after-school clubs, in holiday play schemes and new places in sessions and full daycare.

Elaine Beach, grants administrator for West Sussex Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, said: "Funding received from the New Opportunities Fund in the Worthing area will benefit children with a wide variety of social backgrounds and cultures ensuring quality, affordable childcare and play provision from pre-school right through to after-school and holiday clubs.

"Parents will also benefit from these extra childcare places enabling them to access training employment opportunities."

Councillor Sally Greenwell, Cabinet member for education and the arts, said: "The creation of these new places means that parents and carers in local communities will be able to access high quality, affordable childcare, and have the peace of mind and confidence that their children are being safely cared for while they work, train or study."