Analysis: Universal Childcare - Labour's next big idea

Nursery World, 4 September 2008

An early years sector wary of any more new initiatives from policymakers agrees that widening access to childcare would be a worthwhile one, as Simon Vevers hears.

We would win if we introduced universal childcare. It would transform the lives of many families, and it would be the finest legacy of New Labour.' Not the anonymous musings of a Government minister or despairing Labour MP, but a rank-and-file view expressed recently on a Labour-supporting website. With the Brown Government weighed down by depressingly low opinion poll ratings and morale within the Labour Party at an all-time low, the Observer suggested...

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