Tax-free childcare alone will not make childcare more affordable for most families
Today’s announcements are welcome, but the direction of travel is worrying.
Today’s announcements are welcome, but the direction of travel is worrying.
In Norway, state support for childcare goes to providers who have to meet quality criteria in order to receive any money.
More than 100,000 families could lose out on up to £18,000-worth of childcare help under a new government scheme announced today.
Compared with other countries, in the UK there are complicated and inefficient mechanisms for the public funding of childcare.
Labour’s childcare announcement is a welcome attempt to try to bring down parents’ childcare costs.
The government today launched a consultation on proposals for extra support with childcare costs for working families.
The Budget announced measures to help parents pay for childcare. But those in most need miss out on the biggest chunk of the support, argues Helen Barnard.
The new childcare policy will do very little to help the millions of people who have already lost out under benefit cuts, but it will help those with joint incomes of just short of £300,000.
The childcare problem that David Cameron is trying to solve is one of his own making.
Affordable childcare rather than the raising of the personal allowance would better help struggling families, writes IPPR’s Kayte Lawton.