The plan was announced by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner who told delegates at the party’s annual conference in Brighton, ‘I am proud to say that we will give £500m a year directly to Sure Start, reversing those cuts in full. Because to give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life.
‘For far too many that simply isn’t happening. The Tories promised free childcare to the children of working parents. They promised over 600,000 places. But they created less than a quarter of them. The most disadvantaged aren’t even eligible and costs are rising more than twice as fast as wages.
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