In its report, ‘The condition of Britain’, the think tank urges the next Government to make investing in young children a priority so parents can work.
It goes on to recommend extending the 15 free hours to all two-year-olds, and increasing universal childcare from 38 weeks to 48 weeks a year for two-, three- and four-year-olds.
The IPPR also calls for guaranteed affordable childcare places for all parents of children from the age of one.
These measures would be funded by restricting pension tax relief, freezing child benefit and scrapping the marriage tax allowance, due to come in next year, says the IPPR.
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