Within its manifesto, launched today by SNP leader leader Nicola Sturgeon, the party says it would support an increase of free childcare hours from 15 to 30 hours a week for three and four-year-olds, along with disadvantaged two-year-olds, by 2020 in England and Scotland.
It is one of a number of measures the party supports in order to reduce child poverty.
The SNP would 'vigorously' oppose plans for further cuts in child benefit and tax credits, and vote for increases to benefits at least in line with CPI inflation. It would also scrap the roll-out of universal credit. This would ensure the income of the poorest in society do not fall even further behind the the cost of living, it says.
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