The National Primary Childcare Service builds on plans already announced to provide a legal guarantee for parents of primary-age children to wraparound childcare from 8am to 6pm.
More details of how the party would support families were set out in Labour’s election manifesto, launched today by leader Ed Miliband.
‘As well as helping parents, this will provide children with before and after-school clubs and activities, helping to raise their aspirations and attainment. This will be underpinned by a new National Primary Childcare Service, a not-for-profit organisation to promote the voluntary and charitable delivery of quality extracurricular activities,’ the manifesto says.
The document includes plans, already confirmed in the party’s education manifesto published last week.
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