Sunak: Free childcare support is a ‘positive intervention’
Rishi Sunak praises new policy which offers 15 hours a week of free childcare to parents and carers of two-year olds, calling it a “positive intervention”.
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00:00 It's a really positive week for the expansion of our child care offer to support families,
00:05 giving them the choice of how best to juggle child care and their career. And we're moving
00:09 towards a system where working parents will have 30 hours of free child care from the time that
00:14 maternity leave ends at nine months for their little one all the way to four years when they
00:18 start school. This week it's being expanded to two-year-olds, that's really positive. I've been
00:23 talking to families for whom that's going to make a big difference. We've fully funded the programme
00:28 and increased the rates that we're paying to nurseries, making sure that there are more
00:31 child care places available, more child care staff available and the future looks bright. And this is
00:36 a really positive intervention which when it's fully rolled out will be worth around £7,000
00:41 worth of support to working parents.