Good-quality, affordable childcare can transform a child’s life chances – especially for children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. It also helps parents return to work and boosts family incomes.
At full rollout, our new childcare offer will be the most generous in the UK, delivering 20 hours of free childcare a week for 48 weeks a year for children aged 9 months to 4 years – care worth over £30,000 to a family in the first four years of a child’s life.
This universal offer will be available to all parents, regardless of their work status.