Campaigners raise concerns over UK’s free childcare scheme excluding disadvantaged families and children.
The UK government’s expansion of free childcare hours has left many feeling hopeful, yet critics are voicing concerns that disadvantaged children are missing out. According to leading charities, children from low-income or non-traditional households are at risk of exclusion under the current scheme, potentially trapping these families in poverty.
This leaves the UK’s most vulnerable children without equal access to social and educational experiences at a formative stage of development.
This strain often forces parents into difficult decisions about work, while their children miss out on critical early social experiences.
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