Tracy
Brabin MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Early Years, commenting on a report by
the Sutton Trust and Sound Foundations, which found the government’s scheme to
give working parents 30 hours of free childcare could harm social mobility,
said:
“This
report confirms exactly what we have been warning for months – the Tories are
failing to provide high quality early years education for the children who need
it most. The whole system is now being under funded and undermined.
"They
have created less than a quarter of the places they promised, excluded parents
on the lowest incomes, and mismanaged the scheme so badly that many families
simply can’t find a provider prepared to offer them the free hours they are
supposedly entitled to.
"Only this week Labour outlined the alternative – genuinely
free, universal and high quality early years education for every 2-4 year old,
with the resources needed to actually deliver it."
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