Govt extends childcare policy with 15 free hours a week
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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.
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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 āpositive interventionā.
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Education secretary Gillian Keegan defends the roll out of a new childcare scheme saying the government has a āgood track record of delivering on childcare support schemesā. The scheme will offer..