Nursery World - Peers to look at the affordability of childcare

The House of Lords has set up an inquiry to examine how pre-school childcare in England is funded.

The Select Committee on Affordable Childcare will investigate the affordability of childcare and the rationale for providing the free hours and subsidising childcare through taxpayers’ money.

The group of 12 peers appointed last month will also look at childcare policy, child development, whether state subsidies enable parents to work and how childcare is provided, funded and evaluated in other countries, including Scotland and Wales.

Announcing the call for evidence from experts in the sector, committee chair Lord Sutherland of Houndwood said the focus would be on childcare for children from birth to five and look at important questions at the heart of the current debate on childcare policy.

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