Govt extends childcare policy with 15 free hours a week
The Government has today announced expansion of its plan to get parents back to work, with 15 hours of weekly funded childcare now available for two-year-olds. Further plans for working parents of nine-month-olds and above are planned by September, with the funded childcare also set to double to 30 hours next year. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 When people see that the availability of the money is there, we believe the childcare providers
00:06 will make the space available, the places available for the children to get their care.
00:11 So we think it will fit together. Our last plan worked, we think this plan will work
00:15 as well. That's £8 billion of funding to improve childcare and overall all the stuff
00:20 we are doing on tax decreases, £900 typical decrease, average worker, will bring around
00:26 300,000 more people back into the workplace, which is good for childcare providers but
00:32 good for the economy as a whole. So really a good news package all round.