The Chancellor called it a ‘landmark’ Budget for childcare reform, but as the dust settles, what does it mean for the struggling childcare sector, and do the sums add up?
The reforms are implicitly aimed at working parents – the current definition for ‘working’ to qualify for childcare entitlements being an average of 16 hours a weekat the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage for each parent earning less than £100,000.
The reforms, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) points out, will ‘radically change the way that childcare subsidiesare targeted’, with the share of childcare subsidy spending targeted at working families set to more than double.
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