Giving the keynote speech, Phillipson said that the childcare system was ‘broken’, for providers, parents and staff.
She also reiterated Labour’s commitment to breakfast clubs and developing a childcare system for all children from the end of parental leave to the end of primary school.
‘I’m clear that things absolutely need to change,' she said. 'In normal times the gap from the end of parental leave and the start of primary school is shorter crucially than a parliamentary term and that has consequences, political ones, electoral ones, and policy consequences too. The parents of today’s toddlers will not benefit from the policy for tomorrow’s toddlers. And the parents of tomorrow’s toddlers don’t yet know the reforms that you and I know are needed. And you will know that the cost of childcare doesn’t go away when children go to primary school.'
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