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Government launches parent campaign showing the cost benefit of free childcare

The Government has launched a new parent campaign to highlight the cash value of early education places.

The Department for Education will use Facebook and Twitter, and work with Family Information Services, to show families how much the Government is saving them in childcare costs through the early education places for disadvantaged twos and three- and four-year-olds, and Working Tax Credits (or from next year the Tax-Free Childcare scheme).

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The childcare and education minister Sam Gyimah made the announcement at the Family and Childcare Trust’s annual conference yesterday. It follows a meeting Mr Gyimah had with a group of parent bloggers last week to discuss policy and opinions on childcare and early years.

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