The analysis considers the extent to which each party addresses some of the key challenges facing education today, as well as whether their policies appear to be based on credible evidence of likely impact. Where possible, the EPI has compared each party’s spending commitments with its own estimates of likely costs.
On early years and childcare, it says that both the Labour and Liberal Democrat policies are ‘ambitious and costly’, while the Conservatives have promised capital funding to help schools to open nurseries without giving any cost estimates.
Labour has costed its policy to extend the 30 hours to all two-, three- and four-year-olds, employ more graduates to work with pre-school children, and £500m for children’s centres at an extra £3.5 billion a year.
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