Jeremy Hunt confirmed the expansion of free childcare for working parents of one-and two-year-olds to 30 hours, to be phased in ‘for every single child over the age of nine months’.
Delivering his budget speech today, the Chancellor said, ‘Today I want to address an issue in our education system that is bad for children and damaging for the economy. It's an issue that starts even before a child enters the gates of a school. Today I want to reform our childcare system.
'We have one of the most expensive systems in the world. Almost half of nonworking mothers say they would prefer to work if they could arrange suitable childcare.'
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