Rishi Sunak said the expansion of government-funded childcare would ‘give working families peace of mind’.
Rishi Sunak said the Government was delivering on its childcare plan, as the first parents in England benefited from 15 hours of taxpayer-funded care for two-year-olds.
The policy, which came into effect on Monday, is the first phase of a plan to dramatically expand funded childcare for working parents. But Labour pointed to an analysis of Ofsted data that suggests the number of childcare places fell by more than 1,000 between March and December last year, ahead of the anticipated increase in demand for places.
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said the Government was “on track for more than 150,000 children to take up government-funded places”. “We’ve already seen a significant increase in interest in our nursery places in recent months from parents looking to make use of the funded hours, and expect to welcome more children to our nurseries this year and in subsequent years as the scheme expands further.”
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