Nursery World - Labour pledges to scrap Tax-Free Childcare

Labour would abolish tax-free childcare if it come to power, the shadow childcare minister said today.

Tracy Brabin defended childcare vouchers and said that a Labour Government would ‘do away' with Tax-Free Childcare.

She referenced official figures that revealed take-up has been less than expected with 800 million being given back to the Treasury since the scheme began.

Speaking at the annual NDNA conference today, she repeated Labour Party pledges to reverse £500m cuts in funding for Sure Start to ‘end the current postcode lottery’ of provision, as part of the party’s 2017 manifesto pledge of £5.3bn to pay for universal 30 hours for two-,thee- and four-year-olds. She said the money was ‘ringfenced’ and the party had ‘worked out how we are going to pay for it’.

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