Within the 43-page draft manifesto, Labour outlines plans to introduce a National Education Service that is ‘cradle-to-grave’. To achieve this it would ‘overhaul' the existing childcare system in which subsidies are given directly to parents who often struggle to use them, and transition to what it says would be a system of high-quality childcare places in mixed environments with direct Government subsidy.
It goes on to say that under the Conservatives, the free hours entitlement is ‘chronically’ under-funded, with provision patchy and hard to navigate. It claims that many providers are refusing to participate in the scheme meaning parents will not get the hours they are entitled to.
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