At a seminar in London on family policy, both Eva Lloyd, Reader in EarlyChildhood at the University of East London, and Norman Glass, a keyinstigator of Sure Start and chief executive of the National Centre forSocial Research (NatCen), who organised the seminar, questioned whyparents had to work 16 hours a week to receive the childcare element ofthe Working Tax Credit, when they can only claim 12.5 hours of freechildcare.
Mr Glass said, 'The mismatch reflects the Government's unwillingness tolook at things as part of a package. If you give parents benefits forworking 16 hours a week and you set the free entitlement at the samenumber of hours, in one fell swoop you could solve the problem of peoplehaving to pay for childcare to go out to work.
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