More than 100,000 parents have called for an independent review into childcare funding and affordability, which led to a parliamentary debate yesterday.
But the minister argued that ‘given that we are already right now in the middle of the spending review negotiations it wouldn’t be appropriate to launch a separate independent review of childcare at this time’.
Opening the debate, Catherine McKinnell MP, chair of the Petitions Committee pointed out that the UK is close to the top of the list for OECD countries in childcare costs for parents, and that ‘childcare is as necessary to parents getting to work as roads and railways’.
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