Govt: Free childcare will allow 'best early life chances'
Education minister Baroness Smith says the free childcare entitlement starting next week will give children the 'very best early life chances', and parents more flexibility with work. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00What's going to be happening from next Monday is that hundreds of thousands of parents and their
00:05children will be able to take advantage of the new entitlement to 15 hours free child care for
00:13those children from nine months upwards. This has taken an enormous amount of work from
00:19child care providers, local authorities, the government, but it's a massive opportunity for
00:26children to get the very best early life chances and for parents to have more choices about going
00:32out to work. What we've said about flexible working is it helps the economy to become
00:37more productive. We need to see more people who are able to get into work because there are too
00:42many economically inactive people in the economy at the moment. Our child care announcements will
00:48help with that, but so also will enabling businesses, employers and workers work out
00:57a new more flexible way of working.