Does increased childcare funding help mothers into work?

By Eva Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood, School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Sung-Hee Lee, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Derby

Since Labour won the 2024 general election, policy focused on children in the early years – from birth to school age – and their parents has moved sharply up the political agenda.

The government’s most expensive early years commitment so far has been its decision to honour the previous administration’s pledge to provide 30 funded hours of childcare for children aged from nine months to school age…

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