Two infant schools in Hampshire are set to lower their age ranges to start accepting younger children.

Locks Heath Infant School in Warsash Road is a maintained community school in the Fareham district and is currently approved to take children of school age from Reception (ages four to five) to Year 2 (ages six to seven).

The school’s governing body is seeking to lower the school age range to children from two years old and directly manage an early years facility for a minimum of 21 children up to a maximum of 40.

Its proposal aims to open a new early years provision within the school building.

Meanwhile, Lanterns Nursery School, in Winchester, is seeking to start taking babies from six weeks old. It currently accepts children from two to five years old.

Both proposals will help the county council to expand its early provision offer in the areas.

The final approval will be made next week.