THAT F WORD AGAIN Childcare minister Nadhim Zahawi may have not got the response he was expecting when tweeting last month. ‘Breaking: The number of parents securing a code for 30 hours of free childcare has risen to over 377,000,’ he said, adding it was ‘saving hardworking parents money’. The tweet received 81 comments, most of which did not share his excitement. ‘Absolutely brilliant scheme with absolutely no thought whatsoever about the cost to provide those spaces’ said one; another said, ‘It’s not free, it’s not free, it’s not free…how many times do you need to be told before you will listen?’
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